How can I copy bookmarks from PDF to plain text?

[johnd90755206]

I need to send a table of contents to a colleague - just plain text. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC does not seem to permit this, trivial though it seems. My solution is to snapshot the relevant bit of the screen and use Acrobat OCR. Horrible hack!

[try67]

It's possible to create a list of all bookmarks' names as text using a script. However, if the bookmarks tree is not flat (ie, it has more than one level) then it becomes a somewhat complicated task requiring a recursive function.

I've created a (paid-for) tool that allows you to do it, exporting either as a text file or as a PDF, including (or not) the page number each bookmark is pointing to. You can find it here: http://try67.blogspot.com/2008/11/acrobat-export-bookmarks-to-pdf-txt.html

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can use this:

https://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/01/create-a-bookmark-report-using-this-free-acrobat-x-action/ 

[johnd90755206]

I guess I will stick with the OCR hack until Adobe provide this trivial enhancement to Acrobat Pro

[TBradders]

Not sure if there's much point in replying to this old post, but I was looking for a solution, and after giving up (the "correct answer" URL is now 404ing), I thought "I wonder if I can view bookmarks when viewing the PDF in Google Chrome?"

Sure enough, you can open the PDF in Chrome, click the top left menu / hamburger icon, click "Document outline", and copy/paste the bookmark text from there.

Hope that helps anyone stumbling upon this question after googling the same thing. 🙂

[Дима318382493viw]

Это лучшее решение из всех и самое простое и быстрое 

 

[sharp_Explorer5E36]

Perfect (and easy) solution to extract the PDF bookmarks as text. Thank you!

[sharp_Explorer5E36]

Perfect (and easy) solution to extract the PDF bookmarks as text. Thank you!

[dinodep]

thanks works perfectly!