Software to create an index on a pdf document

With TExtract you create the back-of-book index for your book in three steps, using a unique combination of automated and manual indexing:

1. Just drop a PDF proof version of your book onto TExtract. An initial index of significant terms and phrases is generated fully automatically. Running through the text to mark entries is not needed.
2. You edit and expand the index in TExtract using powerful and easy to use in-text navigation, selection and editing features, available in no other software.
3. Then you export the formatted index, review it and include it in your document source.

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Working with TExtract the indexing process is supported from the outset by the automatic initial index. But you, the indexer, are in control. Whether it is for a textbook, biography, research report, PhD thesis, business report, legal case index or product catalog, your back-of-book index can be ready within a day - but you can spend as much time as you think necessary. Here's more about the features of TExtract and about the differences with other software.

To try and see for yourself, download TExtract and use the 30-day trial license to create the index for your publication now. If you are pleased with the result, buy a license to export the full index.

TExtract is used by authors, editors and professional indexers who want quality back-of-book indexes while having to meet deadlines. You will value TExtract's navigation, editing and formatting functions that provide full control. You will also appreciate its index revision and re-use facilities, its Word embedding and EPUB export options, its various output formats, its powerful application of authority files, its indexing standards support and its table format that enables further processing by other software. See the bibliography with links to indexes. See recently published books and indexes below.

Kenneth B. Pyle Hiroshima and the Historians. Cambridge University Press, 2024

Ryan, J. Michael (ed.) Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Routledge, 2023

Anna Huttenlocher From Loss to Memory: Behind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning. Cambridge University Press, 2023

Marek Jancovic A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay. Springer, 2023

Craig S. Lent Learning to Program with MATLAB: Building GUI Tools. Wiley, 2023

Users of TExtract are Thomson Reuters, CH2M HILL, Yale Law School, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, University of Pretoria, Bentham Science Publishers, ITT, Exelis, John Benjamins Publishers, Author Solutions Inc, UWA Business School, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Miami Dade Office of Strategic Business Management, VTeX, XLibris, Baylor College of Medicine, the International Institute of Social History, Trinity College, WordCo Indexing, the Hoover Institution Library and many others in over 70 countries worldwide.

Kenneth B. Pyle Hiroshima and the Historians Cambridge University Press, 2024