simplebookmarker

simplebookmarker provides the sbm command, which adds PDF bookmarks from an indented plain-text table of contents.

Installation

cargo install simplebookmarker

Usage

Given book.pdf and book.txt, run:

sbm book

The result is written to book_bm.pdf.

Input, bookmark, and output paths can also be set explicitly:

sbm --input source.pdf --bookmarks contents.txt --output result.pdf

Run sbm --help for all options.

Bookmark format

Each valid line starts with a one-based PDF page number and a title. A hyphen between the page number and title is optional. Indent child bookmarks with one tab or four spaces per level.

1-Introduction
    3-Background
        5-History
10 First chapter

Blank and malformed lines are ignored. Entries with page zero or a page number beyond the end of the PDF are also ignored. If indentation skips a level, the entry is attached at the deepest available level.

License

MIT