for working with bookmarks you can look at 
http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/bookmarks.html
for how to split a PDF you could use/review  org.apache.pdfbox.util.Splitter 

Kind regards

Maruan Sahyoun

Am 14.11.2012 um 11:30 schrieb Tzali Maimon <tzali.mai...@eqsquest.com>:

> Thanks for the attention.
> I assume I would like to take a look on both API and decide. It sounds
> though that splitting according to bookmarks is easy so Can you tell me how
> to pull that off plz?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Maruan Sahyoun 
> <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>wrote:
> 
>> it's possible to split a PDF using PDFBOX. The question is how to retrieve
>> the information where to split the PDF. That was the reason for me asking
>> how your sections are stored e.g. bookmarks, links, text … . If it's a
>> bookmark you need to get the information in a different way than sections
>> being normal text where a human can see the division but retrieving that
>> with a program might be difficult. There are APIS for retrieving bookmarks
>> and text though.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> 
>> Maruan Sahyoun
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 14.11.2012 um 11:10 schrieb Tzali Maimon <tzali.mai...@eqsquest.com>:
>> 
>>> PDFs are sometimes divided into sections or subjects.
>>> for example:
>>> 
>>> Title 1:
>>>     Sub-title:
>>>            some text...
>>> 
>>>     sub title:
>>>            some title
>>> 
>>>            sub-sub-title:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I want to split my PDF not by pages but by the this tree of titles. I
>> dont
>>> know if PDF forces each subject to be a bookmark.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi - what do you mean with sections and subsections. Are these bookmarks
>>>> in PDF?
>>>> 
>>>> With kind regards
>>>> 
>>>> Maruan
>> 
>> 

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