[Enhancement]

[Jose Rodriguez]

Hello!

First and foremost, thank's for all the hard work to make Calibre a reality. I'm you biggest follower.

I'm a researcher and I have more than 10,000 books in my Calibre Library (and growing - 90% PDF format).

The one thing that would make me more productive, is having a feature that can extract the "TABLE OF CONTENTS", so I can have access to the chapters information without opening the selected file. Just a "click" away.

More like the "Look Inside" feature in Amazon Bookstore. I know Calibre has a suchlike feature, and we can see the "cover" and "metadata", but no "TABLE OF CONTENTS".

I have been adding this extra information by the "copy/paste" feature in the software. It helps very much. I also have a printed (paper/ink) "content catalog" so I can easily find the information needed in my "Calibre Library". This catalog includes the "cover" and the "TABLE OF CONTENTS" of each book.

This has been in my mind for quite a while now, so maybe this "Enhancement Proposal" will make Calibre even better.

Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge nor the economic resources to develop this "would be" feature on my own.

Thanks again for making my life not just easier, but fun!

JGR

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

ToCs can only be automatically extracted from PDF files if the PDf file
has an actual Outline, i.e. the "Bookmarks" panel in acrobat reader. Do
your PDFs actually have these?

[Jose Rodriguez (jgr777)]

Hello,

Well, this was highly wished for, but definitely unexpected... thanks for
your super quick reply!! I understand know why your protect is thriving.

To answer your question:

-Maybe 50% of my PDF's have bookmarks.

I have been doing the "copy/paste" nightmare, and is not even close to
practical, though the end result is simply formidable. It's like having a
quick birds eye view.

Anyway, I was thinking that maybe I did not expressed my thoughts properly
because of your question (or maybe I did). Let me try again:

If we could have a look at the pages where the "TOC'S" are, without
extracting word by word, it would be awesome. Maybe if this "Proposed
Enhancement" could let us input the "TOC'S" page numbers, and then
"Caliber" It could make a copy of the "TOC'S" pages in the book
"Containing Folder". Then, we could access this info in the "Format" tab,
where we would see this:

Formats:

PDF, MOBI, EPUB, TOC'S.

Look, I do not know the hows and whys of software development or
programming, so if all of this sounds insane, I sincerely apologize for
consuming some of your valuable time... LOL.

Thanks!!!!!

On May 2, 2018 11:30 PM, "Kovid Goyal" <email address hidden> wrote:

ToCs can only be automatically extracted from PDF files if the PDf file
has an actual Outline, i.e. the "Bookmarks" panel in acrobat reader. Do
your PDFs actually have these?

** Changed in: calibre
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  [Enhancement]

Status in calibre:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hello!

  First and foremost, thank's for all the hard work to make Calibre a
  reality. I'm you biggest follower.

  I'm a researcher and I have more than 10,000 books in my Calibre
  Library (and growing - 90% PDF format).

  The one thing that would make me more productive, is having a feature
  that can extract the "TABLE OF CONTENTS", so I can have access to the
  chapters information without opening the selected file. Just a "click"
  away.

  More like the "Look Inside" feature in Amazon Bookstore. I know
  Calibre has a suchlike feature, and we can see the "cover" and
  "metadata", but no "TABLE OF CONTENTS".

  I have been adding this extra information by the "copy/paste" feature
  in the software. It helps very much. I also have a printed (paper/ink)
  "content catalog" so I can easily find the information needed in my
  "Calibre Library". This catalog includes the "cover" and the "TABLE OF
  CONTENTS" of each book.

  This has been in my mind for quite a while now, so maybe this
  "Enhancement Proposal" will make Calibre even better.

  Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge nor the economic resources to
  develop this "would be" feature on my own.

  Thanks again for making my life not just easier, but fun!

  JGR

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[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Extracting bookmarks is certainly possible, extracting ToCs from
arbitrary PDF pages is not. As for non-PDF formats, extarcting ToCs from
them is certainly possible.

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