Get Your PDF Back With a Clickable Table of Contents

Our AI-powered tool analyzes your PDF document structure, identifies headings and subheadings using advanced machine learning algorithms, and automatically generates a professional table of contents. The process takes just seconds and works with any PDF that has a text layer.

Yes. The free plan lets you generate table of contents for PDFs up to 10MB at no cost. Paid plans raise the file size limit and add batch processing, priority processing, and custom branding on exports.

Your own PDF, with two things added: a bookmark tree that shows up in the sidebar of Preview, Acrobat, Chrome or any other reader, and a contents page inserted at the front where every entry is a link that jumps to that page. Your existing pages are not rewritten or re-compressed — they come back exactly as they went in. If you only want the contents data, you can export it separately as Word (.docx), plain text, or JSON.

Yes, and you should. Your document renders next to the detected headings, and clicking any heading jumps the preview straight to its page, so you can confirm the AI got it right. Anything that looks wrong can be edited, re-pointed to a different page, or deleted before you export.

The first 5. Every heading is still listed on the contents page and your document always comes back complete — we never hand back a truncated copy of your own file — but links and bookmarks stop after the 5th entry, and the contents page carries a PDFNavigator credit line. A $4.99 7-day pass (one-time, never renews) or Pro links every heading and drops the credit line.

It works with any PDF that contains a text layer — including scanned documents that have already been run through OCR. Purely image-based PDFs with no embedded text are not supported yet, so run those through an OCR step first and the generator will read them normally.

Accuracy depends on how consistently your document is formatted — cleanly structured PDFs with distinct heading styles detect best. Every generated TOC item includes a confidence score so you can spot and review weaker entries. You can modify titles, page numbers, and hierarchy levels before exporting.

Your PDF file is parsed locally in your browser and is never uploaded to our servers. To detect headings, the extracted text is sent over an encrypted connection to our AI analysis service and is used only to generate your table of contents. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

Definitely! After generation, you can edit any aspect of the table of contents: modify titles, adjust page numbers, change hierarchy levels, reorder entries, and remove unwanted items. The interactive editor makes it easy to perfect your TOC before export.

Our PDF table of contents generator works excellently with technical manuals, research papers, academic documents, e-books, reports, and any structured document with clear headings. It supports documents in multiple languages and various formatting styles.

A structured, bookmarked table of contents is one of the things assistive technology relies on to navigate a long PDF, so it supports your WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 accessibility work. It is one piece of a compliant document, not the whole picture — tagging, alt text, reading order, and contrast still need to be handled in your PDF.

Absolutely! Our PDF table of contents generator is perfect for publishers, technical writers, educators, and businesses. Commercial use is allowed for all features. Pro and Enterprise plans add batch processing, larger file size limits, and custom branding on exports.

The free plan supports PDF files up to 10MB. Pro raises that to 100MB and Enterprise to 500MB, which covers even lengthy technical manuals and scanned academic papers. Processing time scales with document size.

You can export your table of contents as structured JSON, which drops straight into custom scripts, static site builds, and document management pipelines. Pro and Enterprise plans also support batch processing so you can run a whole folder of documents at once. For anything more specific, email us at [email protected].