This section lists all main features available in PDF Index Generator. Explore the comprehensive capabilities that make indexing your PDFs fast, accurate, and professional.
AI-Powered Features
NewAI-Powered Indexing. Index your book using Artificial Intelligence for smarter, faster results.
NewAI reads and understands your book’s content, then automatically extracts all important index terms. No manual term lists needed.
NewGuide the AI to focus on specific fields or subjects, and it will extract only the terms relevant to those areas.
NewAI can automatically build a professional Names Index, detecting and organizing all person names in the book.
NewProvide a list of terms and let AI find and collect all their page numbers from the book for you.
NewAI automatically detects and organizes headers and sub-headers, plus identifies and creates cross-references between related index terms. No manual setup required.
All Other Features
Built to handle large books (1,000+ pages), with the same speed and precision as smaller ones.
Index a book using a list of terms you define.
Index terms only when they appear in a specific font format (e.g. bold or italic).
Collect index terms using regular expressions for advanced pattern matching.
Collect index terms based on their font format. Great for styled or highlighted text.
Choose which pages to include or exclude from the index.
Force-exclude specific terms so they never appear in the index.
Review and edit the generated index before saving. Disable, add, or modify any term.
Smart name reversal. Automatically convert “John Smith” to “Smith, John” or restore it back.
Define up to 4 levels of headers and sub-headers with automatic indentation.
Display sub-headers in indented style or run-in style. Your choice.
Add cross-references to the index (e.g. “see also…”).
Detect and include footnote and endnote numbers for indexed terms.
Customize the font style of any index term or part of it. Bold, italic, color, and more.
Control the index page header and footer. Its content, position, and styling.
Merge multiple indexes into one combined index.
Make index terms clickable hyperlinks that jump directly to their pages in the PDF.
Write page ranges in standard format (e.g. 121-125) or condensed inclusive format (e.g. 121-5).
Save the index to a PDF (append to existing or create new), a plain text file, or an MS Word document (.docx / .doc).
Choose exactly after which page in the book the index should be inserted.
Open and index password-protected (encrypted) PDF books.
Run the program from the Command Line (Terminal) for automation and scripting.
Index multiple books at once using Command Line batch mode.
Supports PDFs in any language. English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and more.
Program interface available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.
Includes built-in word categories (e.g. stop words). And you can create and export your own.
Built-in index templates (themes) to match your book’s design and style.
Set the page size, orientation, margins, fonts, and colors for the index pages.
Choose how many columns to use per index page.
No Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word installation required.
