Looking for a free or cheap PDF viewer that lets you browse files by tags

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Do you know how you can, in a .docx file in Microsoft Word, press Ctrl+F, click in “Titles”, and then browse a file quickly through its headers?

I’ve seen some articles that point out that you can do the same thing in PDF files by using Adobe Acrobat DC Pro.

Some files will have the tag structure by default (they were created this way), but in other files you can ask Adobe Acrobat DC Pro to automatically generate the tag structure (based on the documents’ fonts), and then you’re free to browse them in that way.

I have to study literally hundreds of large PDF files (100+ pages each), and I think that a PDF reader that allows me to perform such a task would render my studying much more efficient.

However, Adobe Acrobat DC Pro is expensive.

Do you know any free (or, at least, cheaper) PDF reader alternatives that also have this function?

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Can Sumtra do it? I’ve never had to use a feature like that out of a PDF viewer…

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Not that I know of. I looked through Sumatra’s interface but couldn’t find anything about tag trees or anything like that.

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Here are some things you can try:

  • Look into creating a clickable table of contents in your PDF. There are some old articles out there that might give you some useful tips.
  • When searching in Sumatra, try using terms like Section, Chapter, Bookmark, or Index to see if you can find anything related.
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PDF-XChange Editor or Foxit PDF Reader

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You might want to use PDFXCE instead. The latest version of Foxit PDF Reader doesn’t support adding bookmarks anymore.

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exactly…I noticed that too