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Originally Posted by willus
This program (cpdf) is awesome.
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It really is. It can do a lot and gives lossless results, preserving the TOC and highlighting. Another very useful free tool is
PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit. It excels at extracting pages from a PDF, especially if you want pages that are not necessarily contiguous. Acrobat really sucks at that. You can make a list of the pages and page ranges you want, in any order, and extract them to a new PDF in just one line of code. Of course,
cpdf can do that too. Another thing both tools can do is add a TOC (bookmarks outline) to a document. The syntax for
cpdf is much simpler so that is the best tool for the job. You can completely index a document by simply navigating to a page, copying the text you want as the bookmark title, typing the indentation level, title, and page of the bookmarks in a text file and adding them to the PDF. In Acrobat you have to go to the page, highlight the text, add the bookmark, and adjust the level using the mouse. It takes much longer.