Extract bookmarks from PDF files using Matlab?
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How to extract all the bookmarks from a PDF file? These bookmarks are usrually the headlines of the pdf. Thank you.
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Christopher Creutzig
on 18 Oct 2023
Those “bookmarks” form a tree structure, with chapters and sections, and include (hyperlink) targets in the PDF. What kind of output would be useful for what you are trying to do, a flat vector of strings, or do you need the nesting information? Do you need the link targets?
(Not saying I have a solution for any of these, but it would help in trying to answer your question.)
dpb
on 18 Oct 2023
@Christopher Creutzig, if you're particularly interested in/knowlegeable of pdf file interaction, you might find <another recent question> of some interest.
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dpb
on 15 Oct 2023
Moved: dpb
on 15 Oct 2023
High level MATLAB functions including extractFileText, pdfinfo and readPDFFormData in the <DataAnalyticsToolbox> don't return the bookmarks; you'll have to have some 3rd party pdf toolset to be able to do that...there are some like <itext bookmark example> that utilize code in a DLL that you would have to write mex code in your language of choice to use.
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