Merge PDF's with PDFTK with Bookmarks?

Question

Using pdftk to merge multiple pdf\'s is working well. However, any easy way to make a bookmark for each pdf merged?

I don\'t see anything on the pdftk docs regardin

Answer 1

The following is intended to be a comment to the answer by pdfmerger (https://stackoverflow.com/a/30524828/3915004).

Thanks for your script pdfmerger! I know the question is marked linux, but to generalize your script for Mac OS X, 2 things are needed:

• ghostscript gs and
• the command pdfinfo (which is included e.g. in poppler)

Install them by getting first brew (google it, it is installed via some curl/ruby-magic command ^^ ) and then simply:

brew install ghostscript
brew install poppler

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ADD-ON: READ TEXT-FILE WITH CHAPTER TITLES:

To expand on your script. I use this workflow mainly for books available as chapter-downloads from the editors website. A textfile containing the chapter names can easily be generated. The following add-on to your code reads additionally a textfile 'chapters.txt' containing one line per pdf to merge. (Note, I didn't implement any check on the number of lines corresponding to the number of pdfs.)

Simply expand your script by replacing the following lines:

p = subprocess.Popen('ls *pdf', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
c = subprocess.Popen('less chapters.txt', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

pdfdateien = []
kombinationen = []
chapternames = []

for line in c.stdout.readlines():
# c contains all chapter-titles
  chapternames.append(line)

for line in p.stdout.readlines():

and

for index, kombination in enumerate(kombinationen):
#  dateiname = kombination[0][0:len(kombination[0])-5]
#
# Hier noch dateiname evtl. verwursten
# z. B.
#  lesezeichen = dateiname[0:1]+" "+dateiname[6:8]+"/"+dateiname[1:5]
#  lesezeichen = dateiname
  lesezeichen=chapternames[index][:-1]

  anz_seiten = kombination[1][16:len(kombination[1])-1]