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How to Export a PDF's Table of Contents to a Spreadsheet
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A visible table of contents on page one is just page text. The actual interactive navigation — what a reader clicks to jump around — lives in the bookmark outline, and that is what this exports.
Why publishers export the outline
- ·Spot-check that every chapter and section actually has a working bookmark before release
- ·Compare the bookmark depth and structure against the manuscript's real table of contents
- ·Flag bookmarks that point to an external site or another PDF, rather than a page in the current document
The CSV export gives each bookmark its own row with a depth column, so a spreadsheet filter can isolate top-level chapters from nested sub-sections in seconds.
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