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PDF Bookmarks

Add a clickable table of contents to a PDF. Write one bookmark per line as Title | page, indent lines with spaces or tabs to nest chapters and sections, and the tool builds the outline that PDF viewers show in their sidebar, with each entry opening its page. Existing bookmarks are replaced, and the bookmark panel opens automatically. Ideal for reports, manuals, scanned books and merged files.

Choose files or drag and drop them into the upload field. Maximum file size: 5 MB.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I write the bookmarks?

One per line in the form Title | page, for example Introduction | 1. The text after the last vertical bar must be a page number, so titles may contain vertical bars themselves. Empty lines are ignored.

How do I nest bookmarks?

Indent a line more than the line above it to make it a child of that line, using spaces or tabs, where a tab counts as four spaces. A line indented as far as an earlier line becomes its sibling. Up to 10 levels are allowed.

What happens to bookmarks that already exist?

They are replaced by the new outline. To keep some of them, include them again in your list.

Where does a bookmark take the reader?

To the page you give, fitted to the window, so the whole page is shown. Page numbers count from 1 in the order the pages appear in the file.

Are the bookmarks expanded?

Yes, every level is open when the document is first shown, and viewers open their bookmark panel automatically. Readers can collapse the levels as they like.

Which characters can titles contain?

Any Unicode text up to 300 characters, including accents, Chinese, Arabic and emoji. Titles are stored as Unicode strings and displayed with the font of the viewer, so no font is embedded for them.

What errors can occur?

A line without a vertical bar, a title or a page number is refused with its line number, as is a page beyond the end of the document. Nothing is saved until every line is valid.

How many bookmarks can I add?

Up to 500 entries in up to 10 levels, from a text of up to 50,000 characters. That covers detailed manuals and long reports.

Can I add bookmarks to a password protected PDF?

Yes, enter its password in the password field. The result is saved without password protection, and the password is not returned.

What are the limits?

Files up to 10 MiB and 200 pages and 30 seconds of processing. Pages, links and form fields are kept unchanged.

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