How to extract table of contents in PDF

[Ynjxsjmh]

PyPDF2 has getOutlines() function to extract the table of contents in PDF. Is there any similar function in pdfplumber? I read the README and search in issues and google but didn't find anything related.

[samkit-jain]

Hi @Ynjxsjmh pdfplumber is built on pdfminer.six and it also provides a get_outlines(...) method. It might be different from the one provided by PyPDF2. To access it, you can use the following code

>>> import pdfplumber
>>> pdf = pdfplumber.open("file.pdf")
>>> pdf.doc.get_outlines()

pdf.doc is an instance of PDFDocument. An example on how to use the method can be found here.