Video tutorials

How to use PDF Index Generator – Step-By-Step?



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Length: 17:52 minutes

This is a video tutorial that will guide you through how to use the PDF Index Generator software to index your book step by step. It will show you how to specify which pages to index, how to index a specific list of terms, how to modify the index results, and how to write the index to your book.

Created on: Feb 2020

How to index a book using a list of terms (Include Categories)?



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Length: 5:45 minutes

This video tutorial will show you how to use PDF Index Generator to index a book using a specific list of terms, through the “Include Categories” feature. It will show you how to define this list of terms inside the program, and it will also show you an easy way for how to define Header & Sub-Header terms to write those terms indented under each other inside the book index.

Created on: January 2021

How to index all names inside my book?



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Length: 4:37 minutes

This video will show you how to index a list of names inside your book using the “Include Category” feature, and reversing all names to be sorted in the written index by last names instead of first names.

Created on: November 2019


How to index a book using regular expressions (Include Queries)?



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Length: 5:00 minutes

This video tutorial will show you how to use the Include Queries feature in the “PDF Index Generator” program, to index a group of terms in your book that have a specific format. Through this feature you can easily index names, emails, dates, capitalized words, etc. in your book.

This feature will also allow you to format the indexed terms to another form automatically, using regular expressions. For example if an Include Query has indexed names like “William Shakespeare”, then it can write them all automatically reversed in the final index, as “Shakespeare, William”.

Created on: January 2021

How to index a book using font styling (Font Queries)



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Length: 4:07 minutes

This video tutorial will show you how to index a book according to the font styling of its terms, through the Font Queries feature of the PDF Index Generator program.

You can use the Font Queries feature to index terms having specific font name or font size or font format (Bold/Italic) or font color, in the book.

Created on: January 2021

How to use the font format feature?



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Length: 5:07 minutes

If you’d like to index specific terms in your book if they have a specific font styling in the book, like if they have bold or italic font, then this video will explain to you how to do that using the font format feature.

Created on: March 2019

How to exclude all footnotes from the book index?



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Length: 5:30 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to index a list of terms inside your book, while ignoring those terms if they’re located in the footnotes. This can be accomplished with the help of the “Font Format” feature.

Created on: December 2019

How can i index all footnotes inside my book?



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Length: 7:27 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to index terms found in foot-note or end-note sections of your book, and how to list their foot-note numbers automatically in the final book index.

Created on: February 2020

How to use the auto-merge feature?



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Length: 5:03 minutes

The auto-merge feature will help you index a couple of terms in your book and merge them automatically together into a final term that you specify, saving you a lot of time and effort.

Created on: July 2022

How to use the ‘Advanced Page Numbers’ feature?



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Length: 9:32 minutes

This video explains how to use the ‘Advanced Page Numbers’ feature to define the real page numbers of your book in the PDF Index Generator program, whether they’re Arabic number, Latin numbers, or whatever.

Created on: July 2019

How to use Step 3 Filters?



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Length: 13:54 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to use the Step 3 Filters features inside the “PDF Index Generator” software to easily filter the results table and find the index terms that you are looking for, to easily modify them.

Created on: October 2022

How to import a list of terms from a text file?



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Length: 2:33 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to import a list of terms inside the PDF Index Generator software from a text file, to index a book using that list of terms.

Created on: October 2022

How to define cross-references?new



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Length: 7:34 minutes

This tutorial covers cross-references, why use them, and how to define them using PDF Index Generator.

Created on: May 2024

How to design the theme of the book index (Index templates)?



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Length: 5:27 minutes

This video tutorial will show you how to design the book index theme inside the PDF Index Generator program, to use this theme while writing the index to your book.

The “Index template” feature will allow you to make many customizations for the book index theme, like changing its colors, fonts, margins, and many other settings, so your index would look perfect.

Created on: January 2021

How to modify the index paginator?



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Length: 5:33 minutes

This video tutorial will cover all you need to know about the index paginator, including how to set it up using the PDF Index Generator and properly enter page numbers for the book index section. It will teach you how to set its font, margins, format and position inside all pages of the book index.

Created on: August 2022

How to use the word labels feature?new



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Length: 4:19 minutes

Word labels is a valuable feature enabling you to assign colored labels to terms in Step 3 results table. This functionality proves beneficial for grouping terms for future modifications. This tutorial will guide you through harnessing this feature effectively for your indexing needs.

Created on: May 2024

The index sorting options



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Length: 5:27 minutes

This tutorial will go over the index sorting options, which make it easier to professionally arrange the terms in the book index. With the use of those settings, you can arrange the index terms in the book index while ignoring accents, punctuation, symbol marks, and common English words, as well as pronounce the numbers in the index terms.

Created on: July 2022

How can i combine 2 indexes together?



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Length: 5:24 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to combine 2 indexes for a book together, then write them at the end as one index. This is helpful if you want to index a book on stages, and you can apply this to index each chapter in your book individually then combine all the indexes together.

Created on: October 2015

How can i use the program in Command Line?



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Length: 6:11 minutes

This tutorial will show you how to use the program in the command Line mode, in order to index one or more books using 1 command line or a script file, without any interaction needed from the program interface. This will save a lot of time if you index many books.

Created on: June 2012