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Originally Posted by Hitch
Uh....
Wouldn't it be easier to simply open the PDF in Acrobat Pro, and make the items links? That's what I do for ePDFs, and it's quite fast. Why all the scanning, etc.?
Hitch
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Is there maybe a free automatic way now (some free plug-in or javascript add-on), without an additional expensive Acrobat plug-ins ? such as:
http://indesignsecrets.com/automatin...-pdf-files.php
http://virginiasystems.com
http://www.debenu.com/products/deskt...age-links-pdf/
Indesign' Live Index script
http://www.id-extras.com/products/liveindex
Although it should be about the same speed to link every bookmark or every entry in the TOC page to make it interactive(hyperlinked), I prefer linking bookmarks (as ocr-ed and embedded TOC) because it is usually faster to me the way I do it, but I sometimes create both (TOC bookmarks and hyperlinks).
If pdf is already ocr-ed then I would just copy/paste the TOC page into the text file (notepad, wordpad ...) or ocr it in less than a minute and then embed it in pdf in a couple of seconds by opening pdf in jpdfbookmarks app, adding the text file and saving pdf with embeded bookmarks(not linked as yet).
I would also paginate pdf beforehand to link the bookmarks faster. By pagination I don't mean putting the visible page numbers on the pages if missing, but taking into consideration the pages with roman and arabic numerals and those without assigned numerals, so that after entering go-to number 100 command, it will take us exactly to the page no.100 in the book, instead of e.g. no. 80 because there were 20 pages with roman numerals in the beggining of the book.
Pagination (using free becypdfmetaedit app or Acrobat) for average 500-600 page pdf usually takes just a minute or two, but sometimes it can take ten minutes or more, depending on the pdf content e.g. if there are a lot of images or empty pages without the page numbers it takes longer to enumerate them all correctly.
Pagination using Acrobat
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...g_a_brief.html
Once I have paginated pdf with embeded (non-linked) bookmarks, I would just look at the TOC entry (in the paper book or another copy of pdf file opened on PC) and seeing its page number, quickly jump to the page in paginated pdf with embedded bookmarks (using Status Bar at the bottom of pdf) linking corresponding bookmark using "Set Destination" command.
In this way I can quickly link a hundred bookmarks for less than five minutes, whereas linking a hundred entries in TOC would probably take me a fifteen or more minutes.
Instead of linking every bookmark manually by "Set Destination" command, we can also simply just separate the text lines and the page numbers in the ocr-ed TOC text file with the slash sign beforehand, and JpdfBookmarks will automatically link the embedded bookmarks with coresponding pdf pages correctly (if PDF is paginated).
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Originally Posted by verydeepwater
I have a PDF of a large technical document. I want to end up with an E-PDF (or PDF to be used as an eBook) with linked table of contents, and a long index, with all the entries linked to the corresponding pages. Could someone kindly advise me of the best way of going about this.
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Creating hyperlinked (interactive) Table of Contents with Acrobat
from 1:00 min. if there is already TOC page in pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR7FT3Pr4a0
Some free pdf editors to add hyperlinks to TOC:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4707191_hyperlink-pdf-file.html
http://pdf.wondershare.com/tutorial/...pdf-files.html
So, you can just quickly hyperlink the TOC and paginate the pdf, without the need for hyperlinking thousands of entries in the index, because it's not a problem (if pdf is paginated) to quickly jump to the exact page manually after seeing the page number in the index.
Nevertheless if you still want to hyperlink every single entry in the index and don't have some expensive plug-in to do that automatically for you, you can still do that the same way as with the TOC manually, but it will take "a bit" longer this time (e.g. one hour a day for 500-600 links x 7 days = 3500-4000 linked entries in a week )