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Identify PDF files which have bookmarks

I have a batch of pdf files (most of them are dissertations) in a directory. Some of them have bookmarks in the pdf which helps me to jump to topics easily. Now, I want to bookmark the rest of them.

In short, the question is how to identify pdf files which have bookmarks using shell or grep?

Solution

  • A simple script iterating over files in a directory may be all you need

    for f in /Your/Directory/Path/*.pdf; 
do cpdf -list-bookmarks $f; 
done