pdfoutline

A command line tool for adding an outline (a bookmark, or table of contents) to pdf files

Prerequisites

Make sure you have ghostscript installed. In Mac, you can use homebrew:

brew install ghostscript

ghostscript for windows can be installed from the official website

Sample output

Sample Table of contents file: sample.toc

# this is a comment
First Chapter 1
    first section 1
        first subsection 1
    second section 4
    third section 5

# a command to fix a gap between pdf pages and content pages
+10

Second Chapter 10
    some entry 10
    some entry 11

Usage

$ ./pdfoutline.py sample.pdf sample.toc sample-out.pdf
 |██████████████████████----------------------------| 118/263

optionally, the ghost script executable can be specified as well

$ ./pdfoutline.py sample.pdf sample.toc sample-out.pdf --gs_path 'C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.55.0\bin\gswin64.exe'