Well, you could always buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat, which is actually designed solely for the purpose of creating and editing PDF files. Or you could import the file into Calibre, convert it to ePub format, edit the ePub to add the table of contents, then convert it back to PDF. There are other free tools for working with PDF directly. If you export the document in PDF or EPUB format, the TOC is included for reader apps (such as Apple Books) that support navigation. Create a table of contents Insert a table of contents into a word. In this video tutorial we will show you how to create an interactive table of contents for a PDF.Don't forget to check out our site for mo.

In this video tutorial we will show you how to create an interactive table of contents for a PDF.Don't forget to check out our site for mo.

Create a PDF from a File

You can create a PDF from image or TXT files.

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• In the Convert toolbar, choose FromFiles >From File.
• Select a file you want to convert, and click Open.
• Click Save button(or choose File > Save), and specify the file name and location to save the converted PDF file.

Create PDFs from Multiple Files

Foxit PhantomPDF Mac allows you to easily merge files of different types into a single PDF file, or convert them into separate PDFs.

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• In the Convert toolbar, choose FromFiles >From Multiple Files.
• In the Convert Multiple Files dialog box, click Add Files, and choose Add Files, Add Folder, or Add Open Files to add files, folders or opened files you want to combine.
• (Optional) When combining multiple files to a single PDF, you can adjust the order of files to be displayed in the combined PDF by the files' name, modified time, or size by clicking the corresponding column name. Or, adjust the order of files manually as desired by clicking the Move Up/Move Down button. Selecting a file and clicking the Remove button can delete the added file from the list.
• Choose a type of the converted PDF files and click Convert:
  • Convert multiple files to PDF files: All the files will be converted to different PDF files. If necessary, check the Keep original file names and locations option to save the converted PDF files with the same name in the same folder as the original document.
  • Merge multiple files into a single PDF file: All the files will be converted to a single PDF file. You can check Add a new table of contents page converted from bookmarks option to create a table of contents from the file names of each file when merging multiple files into a single PDF file.

• (Optional) If you choose to combine multiple files to a single PDF, the combined PDF file will be opened with Foxit PhantomPDF Mac automatically after conversion. Then click the Save button(or File >Save) to save the combined PDF file.

Create a PDF from a Blank Page

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• In the Convert toolbar, choose Blank.
• Use the typewriter tool or edit tools to add contents in the blank page.
• Click Save button(or choose File > Save) to save the file.

Convert and Export PDF Files

Foxit PhantomPDF Mac allows users to convert a PDF to Microsoft Office, image, HTML, or text file.

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• If you try to convert and export a scanned PDF file or an image-based PDF file, recognize the text in the PDF file to make it searchable or editable first. Please refer to OCR PDF Files for more information.

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• In the Convert toolbar, select one of the following options:
  • To Word/To Excel/To PowerPoint: Convert the PDF to Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint.
  • To Image: Convert the PDF to image as a PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, or BMP file.
  • To HTML: Export the PDF file as a HTML file which could be opened in your browser.
  • To Text: Convert the PDF file as a plain text or rich text file.
• In the pop-up setting dialog box, specify the page range and export settings, and click OK.
• In the Save as dialog box, specify the file name and location, and click Save.

OCR PDF Files

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a software process that enables images or printed text to be translated into machine-readable text. OCR is most commonly used on scanned PDF documents to make the text searchable or editable.

Quick OCR

Foxit PhantomPDF Mac provides a Quick OCR command to recognize all pages of a scanned or image-based PDF with default or previous settings by one-click.

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• Click QuickOCR in the Convert toolbar.

Recognize Text

To recognize image-based or scanned text in a PDF file, please do the following:

• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.
• Click OCR >Current File to recognize text in the current file, or choose OCR > Multiple Files to recognize text in multiple PDF files.

• (Optional) In the OCR Multiple Files dialog box, do the following:
  • Click Add files, and choose Add Files, Add Folder, or Add Open Files to add a file, folder, or opened file.
  • After adding the files, use the Move up or Move down button to reorder the files, if necessary.
  • Click Remove to remove the added file from the list, if necessary.
  • Click Output Options to select the destination folder, and choose how to name the new file and whether to overwrite an existing one.
  • Click OK.
• In the Select OCR Engine dialog box, do the following:
  • Specify the page range to be OCRed.
  • Select the language (s) used in your document.
  • Choose the output type:
    • Searchable Text Image: Makes the image text searchable.
    • Editable Text: Makes the image text editable.
  • Check Find All Suspects (Show all OCR results that may need to be changed.) option if you want the OCR suspects to be displayed for you to check and correct after the recognition.
  • Click OK to start text recognition.

• (Optional) If you checked Find All Suspect (Show all OCR results that may need to be changed.) option, the OCR suspects will be enclosed in red boxes for you to check and correct after the recognition completes. Follow the steps in Find and Correct OCR Suspects to check and correct the suspects.

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Find and Correct OCR Suspects

After recognizing image-based or scanned text in the PDF file, you can pick out and correct the text or characters that are uncertain.

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• Open the Convert toolbar by one of the following:
  • Choose Tools > Convert.
  • Clickin the Common Tools toolbar, and choose Convert.

• In the Convert toolbar, click Suspect Result, and choose one of the following options:
  • First Suspect: Highlight the first suspect in red box.
  • All Suspects: Highlight all the suspects in red boxes.
• In the Find OCR Suspects panel, both the original document text and OCR text will be displayed. You can do the following:
  • If necessary, edit the text in the Recognize as text box.
  • If the highlighted text is incorrectly identified, click Not Text.
  • Click Accept to accept the suspect and find the next one.
  • Click Find Next to find the next suspect.
• Upon completion, click the Close button to close the Find OCR Suspects panel.