Overview
Export Bookmarks to Text writes the bookmark titles and their destinations from the active PDF into a plain text file. The output preserves the bookmark hierarchy using tab indentation and includes page numbers or action descriptions for each entry.
How to use
- Open a PDF that contains bookmarks.
- Go to Plug-Ins > Bookmarks > Views & Reports > Export Bookmarks to Text.
- In the Save dialog, choose a file name and location for the
.txtfile. - Click Save to export.
Output format
Each line of the output file contains one bookmark entry in the format:
[tabs]Title,Destination
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Tab indentation | One tab character per bookmark level. A level-0 (top-level) bookmark has no leading tabs; a level-1 bookmark has one tab, and so on. |
| Title | The full text of the bookmark title. |
| Destination | For page destinations, the page number is written. For URI actions, the URL
is written. For Launch actions, the file path is written. Other action types
are written as Action: <type>. |
Tip
The exported text file can be edited and then re-imported using Bookmarks from text file to rebuild the bookmark tree with modifications.
Note
All bookmarks are exported regardless of level. Bookmarks without any valid
destination or action are exported with Action: Unknown as the
destination field. The file filter defaults to *.txt but you can
choose any file extension.