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How to Extract Bookmarks from a PDF
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PDF bookmarks are stored as a separate outline, not as visible page content. Extraction reads that outline and hands it to you as structured data.
Step-by-step
- 1Open Extract PDF Bookmarks and upload your PDF.
- 2Review the outline tree — title, hierarchy depth, and resolved page number are shown for each bookmark.
- 3Download as CSV for a flat spreadsheet view, or JSON to keep the nested parent-child structure.
Unresolved bookmarks
A bookmark can point somewhere the extractor cannot resolve — a missing destination or a page that no longer exists. It still exports with whatever title and target information is available.
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