How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

[Thomas Schrader]

Hi everybody,

is anyone experienced in archiving PDF?

I need archiving lots of different PDFs in different sizes and formats
into workbooks or folders with index files.

How could I possibly look into each PDF, getting the title info and
generate an index? How do I do clickable references to each content PDF?

How could I practically bind PDF together (ZIP, tar, ...)? Is there some
sort of workbook-like file-format? I had problems with re-arranging
oddly generated PDFs via pdftex so I want avoiding re-arrangement.

Thanks much for any hint.

Thomas Schrader

Re: How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

[Peter Rolf]

Thomas Schrader schrieb:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> is anyone experienced in archiving PDF?
> 
> I need archiving lots of different PDFs in different sizes and formats
> into workbooks or folders with index files.
> 
> How could I possibly look into each PDF, getting the title info and
> generate an index? How do I do clickable references to each content PDF?
> 
> How could I practically bind PDF together (ZIP, tar, ...)? Is there some
> sort of workbook-like file-format? I had problems with re-arranging
> oddly generated PDFs via pdftex so I want avoiding re-arrangement.
> 
> Thanks much for any hint.
> 
> Thomas Schrader
> 
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Hi Thomas,

maybe a search for "PDF" at http://www.softpedia.com can solve some of 
your problems (use the SOFTPEDIA SEARCH ENGINE at the bottom of the page).


It results for example in:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/File-Editors/PDF-Explorer.shtml

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PDF Explorer description

PDF Explorer is a PDF file management software and image extraction 
tool. It allows you to easily gather and add all your pdf files to a 
database file, that displays an overview of Filename, Title, Subject and 
Author. You can then search through all the files, view them, batch 
rename them and more. PDF Explorer can also scan within ZIP files and more.
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Happy exploring,

Peter

Re: How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas Schrader wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> is anyone experienced in archiving PDF?
> 
> I need archiving lots of different PDFs in different sizes and formats
> into workbooks or folders with index files.
> 
> How could I possibly look into each PDF, getting the title info and
> generate an index? How do I do clickable references to each content PDF?
> 
> How could I practically bind PDF together (ZIP, tar, ...)? Is there some
> sort of workbook-like file-format? I had problems with re-arranging
> oddly generated PDFs via pdftex so I want avoiding re-arrangement.

you can use tex to combine files, (\insertpages etc )

if indexing/searching may eb rough, you can search pdftotext converted files instead

pdfinfo gives you the info fields

you need a bit of scripting to get things nicely done

Hans



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