Key Details of Index Generator

  • Create a searchable index for PDF files
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Editors’ Review

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Index Generator creates a fully searchable index for any PDF file in a matter of seconds. It's an incredibly useful tool for researchers and has dozens of other potential applications. It even lets you do more with your file once you create it, adding some serious value.

When you use Index Generator, you can import documents in PDF or IDX formats. The software provides several options for exporting your index, allowing you to save it as IDX, TXT, DOC, RTF, or PDF. This flexibility ensures you can work in the format that best suits your needs.

One of the key features of Index Generator is the ability to customize your index. You can adjust the appearance of words by applying bold, italic, or uppercase styles. This helps emphasize important terms. You can also add extra details like references or headings, which help organize the index better. If there are pages or words that you don't want to include, you can easily omit them to make the index more relevant to your project.

After uploading a document to the software, Index Generator detects all the words and displays them along with the page numbers. You have the freedom to choose which words to include in your index. The program allows you to edit how your index looks by changing text styles and formats. This flexibility enhances readability and usability of your index.

The interface of Index Generator is designed to be user-friendly. It features different sections that show a list of words, details about the index, and previews of the indexed pages. This layout makes it easy to navigate the software and adjust settings without any complications.

This program can scan any PDF file to create a useful index, complete with page numbers, number of appearances, and all of the other details you'd need from an index. You can search the index alphabetically and tailor your results to include or exclude individual pages. You can also set words as references or sub-headings of other words so you can easily find a particular type of item -- like an author in a works cited page -- that much faster. You can also easily place any item into the Recycle Bin, and restore it just as easily. Index Generator is blisteringly fast, too; it took less than a minute to compile a complete index for several dozen pages, even with a heavily formatted PDF file. Once you have your index, you can export it to other formats, including DOC, PDF, and RTF. While you're in the program, you can format your index in multiple different ways and set numerous rules that make browsing easier.

Bottom Line

Index Generator is a lifesaver for researchers, students, and anyone else who has to comb through pages of literature to pull out the stuff they need from it. It will trim hours off of your work as long as the document you need to use is in the PDF format. Since most documents can be found in that wildly popular format, there's little reason not to have this program around on your computer.

What’s new in version 7.0

  • Version 7.0 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.


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Release
Latest update
Version
7.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
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Developer’s Description

Generate an index for a PDF book.
Index Generator will take a PDF book and produce a list of words with associated page numbers. If the book format is in some other form it must be converted to PDF (Microsoft Word offers this as a Save As option. OpenOffice also exports to PDF).

Words can then be selected to be included in an index for the book. Individual pages of a word occurrence can be excluded or included. Words can be set to reference other words. Words can be a subheading of other words. Once the words have been selected, the output can be formatted to your liking. The index can be printed or saved as a Microsoft Word File, RTF File, Plain Text File or PDF File. The preview dialog allows coping to the clipboard for pasting into an application of your choosing.