Need to merge multiple pdf's into a single PDF with Table Of Contents sections

Question

Will have 50-100 single PDF\'s that we\'ll be generating with a php script. PDF\'s are generally grouped into groups of 10-20. Each group needs to have it\'s own Table of Co

Answer 1

With Version 1.45 - December 6, 2012 is pdftk able to create bookmarks with update_info, which could be used as toc.

Its done in 3 Steps:

Precondition for my example

3 PDF files. Single page.

page1.pdf
page2.pdf
page3.pdf

1. Create the bookmark information

# build the bookmark out of an example file
pdftk page1.pdf dump_data output meta.txt
# Edit meta.txt as you need

Heres an example that worked for me, meta.txt:

InfoBegin
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: PDFTK
NumberOfPages: 3
PageMediaBegin
PageMediaNumber: 1
PageMediaRotation: 0
PageMediaRect: 0 0 595.32 841.92
PageMediaDimensions: 595.32 841.92
BookmarkBegin
BookmarkTitle: Page 1
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 1
BookmarkBegin
BookmarkTitle: Page 2
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 2
BookmarkBegin
BookmarkTitle: Page 3
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 3

2. Create an temporary merged pdf file

pdftk page* cat output temp.pdf

3. Add the bookmarks to the pdf

pdftk temp.pdf update_info meta.txt output final.pdf

When you open the final.pdf in acrobat reader you see the bookmarks on the left side.