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Extract PDF Bookmarks

Export the bookmark/outline structure from a PDF as a plain text list or JSON file. Shows each bookmark title with its target page number — useful for creating a manual table of contents or auditing document structure.

How to Use Extract PDF Bookmarks
  1. 1Upload the PDF whose bookmark structure you want to export
  2. 2Click 'Extract Bookmarks' to read the document outline
  3. 3The tool displays all bookmarks with their hierarchy and page numbers
  4. 4Choose the export format: plain text (for copy-paste) or JSON (for programmatic use)
  5. 5Download the bookmark structure file
Examples
  • Export the bookmark outline of a large manual as a plain-text table of contents
  • Extract the chapter structure from a PDF textbook to build a reading guide
  • Pull the bookmark tree from a combined PDF to understand its document structure
  • Export bookmark data from a PDF policy document to create a searchable index
Frequently Asked Questions

Each bookmark's title, its hierarchy level (top-level, sub-level), and the page number it links to. The result shows the full document outline.

Plain text (one bookmark per line with indentation showing hierarchy) or JSON (for programmatic use with nested objects representing the hierarchy).

Export the bookmarks to text, copy the output into your document's first page, and format as a table of contents with the page numbers already provided.

The export will be empty. Use the 'Add Bookmark to PDF' tool to create bookmarks first.

Yes. The JSON format is importable into the 'Add Bookmark to PDF' tool or can be processed programmatically to apply the same structure to a new document.

Yes. All extraction runs in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded to any server.

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