PDFOutliner for Android

This application has performed well with textbooks exceeding 400 pages in length. It’s an excellent tool for making older textbooks useful in a digital format. The auto-toc option is very useful for creating a starting point, but even with only 2 to 3 manually selected headers, the AutoTOC function will opt to add extra levels requiring the user to clean everything up. Pros: - Keyboard shortcuts for quickly adding and reorganizing TOC items. - Great customization and compatibility with all pdf readers I’ve tested, much better than adobe bookmarks. - Robust with even large textbooks. - Helpful documentation to get you up and running with a UI that is clearly well-designed for Android. Areas for improvement: - More documentation on saving/exporting TOC lists/files. I haven’t found explanations for the function of exporting TOC or AutoTOC lists. To backup my progress of painstakingly curated TOCs for longer textbooks, the easiest solution is file/save-as and keeping a working list for version control to avoid losing all progress from a wrong keystroke or misclick. - More options for AutoTOC - the sliding bar for TOC complexity should be more explained, with parameters and their values listed for each set level. Optional parameters (ex. a checkbox for “force only selected headers”) might be useful to better reign in AutoTOC. - Undo function is largely superfluous, see above for version control. - Creating a TOC has added around 5 - 10 MB to the file size. The TOCs I’ve created have been minimal (2-3 header levels) so it’s possible this could add up with more detailed hierarchies. This may be inherent to all TOCs for pdf, but it’s worth mentioning and obviously worth the increase in file size. Wishlist: - The ability to target a TOC item to the top of a page, rather than directly to specified file text. With the exception of sub-sections within a chapter, starting at the top of a page will nearly always be a better experience so the reader isn’t forced to scroll up and make sure they’ve landed at the correct spot. This is remedied somewhat with the target function. - Implementation for non-pdf file extensions: ePub et. al?

I bought this just fot creating a TOC from PDFs that didn't have one. Using the auto-outline feature makes almost perfect outlines. If you choose the highest outline depth, it will pretty much do the trick. The only thing I had to change were the chapter headings. It would miss the first and second letter sometimes (i.e. 'apter' instead of 'Chapter 4'). Other than that it works good and makes the levels correctly. I bought another app named similary "PDFOutline" (do not confuse with this app "PDFOutliner". The former would crash and not make the levels correctly. It was a horrible application. This one is wayyy better. I got robbed with the other purchase.

Yeah it's quirky but I've not found any other tool that does what it does. I've worked with a 140 page (34MB) OCR'ed file with no issues and 300 page files that even MS Office chokes on also with no issues. For reviewers that complain about gibberish, the only ones I saw was not from PDF Outliner but from the OCR process on scanned text. I have had to contact the developer at times for bug reports and help and he has been very responsive. Overall an excellent and unique tool

PDFOutliner does an excellent job of adding/editing tables of contents (TOCs) to your PDFs. The Bullseye Linking feature was particularly cool for adding entries that take you to exactly the right position on a page when you click them. I would like renaming TOC items to be a little easier (like double-clicking one to rename it) but that's a minor complaint. Definitely worth buying if you have a collection of PDFs and find yourself needing to update their TOCs.

I'm a college student. I know reading from physical pages rather than screens is better for retention. I think, as do some researchers, this happens because pages serve as mental markers to which knowledge attaches to. Every. Single. PDF I read now has a table of contents in the hopes that I can make my own mental markers. Putting my education as the stakes, I'm kind of glad but also kind of mad at the fact that PDF Outliner is more stable and faster than Google Chrome. Sometimes the page numbering doesn't work as I want it to (the pages displayed in the corners don't change), but that feels nitpicky in the context of such a great program.