Why automate bookmark creation?
Automation saves time and reduces human error. Since bookmarks require a label, creating them is not as easy to automate as some other tasks in Acrobat, but it can still be a worthwhile task to automate. The problematic issue is, where do the bookmark labels come from? This simple requirement limits the kinds of documents where bookmark automation makes sense. The best situation is where the bookmark labels can be acquired from some ready source, possibly from text already on the page. For example, if the pages each have a title in the same location, regular Acrobat JavaScript methods can be used to scrape the titles off the page. Another situation where automating bookmark creation is useful is in the workflow for creating the previously mentioned piece-meal-built documents, which will be the example for this article. A built document is a PDF that has a standard format and incorporates several documents from different sources that are organized and combined together, not necessarily
