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Mini PDF outline editor

Mini PDF Outline Editor

pipx run pdf-outline-edit

A GUI program to import, edit and modify PDF outlines/Table-of-Content through a simple textual format.

The textual format is almost the same as printed books' ToC which has been "rediscovered" multiple times.

1. Indent level -> Nesting level
2. Number at the end -> Page number
3. Text in between -> Title

You can copy and paste existing outline from PDF books and tidy it up a bit to fuse it into the PDF file in 3 easy steps:

1. Set a target PDF file
2. Write the outline
3. Press "Write to PDF" button

Extra features

Automatic tidy up button. It does the following:

1. Guess and adjust indent levels
2. Remove excessive spaces

Extra Options

• Offset: Starting page of the page numbers. The pages before it will be roman numerals and the offset page's page label will be 1.

Alternatives

• HandyOutliner Almost identical program but written in .NET & iText and uses XML
• pdf.tocgen Over-engineered by following the disgusting "unix philo-dogshit-sophy".

DevOops

# Install in virtualenv
python3 -m pip install -e .

# Run in dev environment
./src/run-gui.py

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later