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Acrobat -- Create Bookmarks from Titles

This tool tries to bring order to messy PDF files by identifying the title (or heading) on each page and creating a bookmark to match it. Many articles, manuals and books are created without a proper bookmarks structure, and sometimes even without a Table of Contents (TOC). This tool tries to fix that creating a bookmarks structure based on the most important title that appears on each page your file. If multiple pages contain the same title, only the first one will be considered, since it doesn't make sense to have identical bookmarks pointing to each page.

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Or you can buy this tool together with
Create TOC from Bookmarks, for just $99 for the pair!
Another Update (12/09/2018): A free demo version of this tool is now available. It will create up to 3 titles in the first 10 pages of the file.

Another Update (30/10/2014): It's now also possible to specify the maximum font size to be used for detecting the titles in the file, as well as to remove the existing bookmarks when running the tool.

Update: The tool can now process up to 999 pages, instead of just 99... Also, a new feature has been added to it where you can select which pages to process (skipping ones that you don't want to bookmark, like the cover or index pages, for example), and also specifying the minimum font size to consider as a title. So if you know that the titles in your file are at least 10-points large, you can tell the script to ignore anything smaller than that.


This tool tries to bring order to messy PDF files by identifying the title (or heading) on each page and creating a bookmark to match it.

Many articles, manuals and books are created without a proper bookmarks structure, and sometimes even without a Table of Contents (TOC). This tool tries to fix that creating a bookmarks structure based on the most important title that appears on each page your file. If multiple pages contain the same title, only the first one will be considered, since it doesn't make sense to have identical bookmarks pointing to each page.

After the script identifies the candidate titles, it will display a set of dialogs with the text found for each page of the document. You can tick each page on or off, and even edit the text. At the end, the bookmarks you selected will be created, and will automatically point to their matching pages.

Let's look at an example: We have a file without any bookmarks in it. We run the script from the menu item it added under "Tools":

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The first dialog allows us to select which pages to process, and what minimum or maximum font size to use:



The tool has processed the pages and is now displaying the titles it identified:
If you click on the "Show..." button next to each page, the document underneath will jump to that page, and if there are titles found on that page, they'll be highlighted in yellow:

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You can now make the adjustments you want in the dialog. Tick on or off the pages for which you want (or don't want) to create bookmarks, and enter the text you want to use for those bookmarks:

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When you finish, the tool creates the bookmarks you've defined, and makes sure they point to the correct pages in the file:

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Important note: At the moment, this script can only process files with up to 999 pages.

Special Offer: Since this tool is closely related to my other tool, Create TOC from Bookmarks, I'm now offering both scripts for a bargain price of just $99 (each one costs $75 on their own). Click here to purchase them both directly via PayPal.

How it works

  • Configure bookmark settings
  • Run Script!

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Each license for the tool can be used on a single machine, as much as you'd like and for as long as you'd like.

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Create Bookmarks from Titles

This tool tries to bring order to messy PDF files by identifying the title (or heading) on each page and creating a bookmark to match it. Many articles, manuals and books are created without a proper bookmarks structure, and sometimes even without a Table of Contents (TOC). This tool tries to fix that creating a bookmarks structure based on the most important title that appears on each page your file. If multiple pages contain the same title, only the first one will be considered, since it doesn't make sense to have identical bookmarks pointing to each page.

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