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title: Table of Contents
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description: Generate a formatted table of contents page from your PDF's existing bookmarks.
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# Table of Contents
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This tool reads the bookmarks (outlines) in your PDF and generates a formatted table of contents page that gets prepended to the document. If your PDF already has bookmarks but lacks a visible TOC page, this tool creates one automatically.
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## How It Works
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1. Upload a PDF that contains bookmarks.
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2. Customize the TOC title, font size, and font family.
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3. Optionally check **Add bookmark for TOC page** to include the TOC itself in the bookmark tree.
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4. Click **Generate Table of Contents** to process the file.
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5. The updated PDF downloads automatically with the TOC page inserted at the beginning.
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## Options
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- **TOC Title** -- The heading displayed at the top of the generated page. Defaults to "Table of Contents".
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- **Font Size** -- Choose from 10pt to 72pt. The default is 12pt.
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- **Font Family** -- Select from Times Roman, Helvetica, or Courier variants (regular, bold, italic, bold italic). Defaults to Helvetica.
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- **Add bookmark for TOC page** -- When checked, a bookmark entry for the TOC page itself is added to the PDF's outline tree.
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## Features
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- Reads the full bookmark hierarchy from the PDF
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- Generates a cleanly formatted TOC page with page number references
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- Supports nested bookmark levels with indentation
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- Choice of 12 built-in PDF fonts
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- Optional self-referencing bookmark for the TOC page
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## Use Cases
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- Adding a printable table of contents to e-books or reports that only have digital bookmarks
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- Creating a TOC for a merged document after combining multiple PDFs
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- Generating a reference page for long technical manuals
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- Preparing documents for print where a visible TOC is expected
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## Tips
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- If your PDF has no bookmarks, use the [Edit Bookmarks](./bookmark) tool first to create them, then come back here to generate the TOC.
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- For large documents, a bigger font size like 14pt or 16pt improves readability.
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## Related Tools
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- [Edit Bookmarks](./bookmark)
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- [Page Numbers](./page-numbers)
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- [Header & Footer](./header-footer)
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