Extract TOC of PDF?

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Published on 2010-03-12T08:50:22Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 6:43 UTC
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I am extracting a pdf into images / swf and text with the help of SWFTools and XPDF.. I am running these in a PDF script.

But now I am trying to go one step further and try to get the TOC from the PDF is it possible to extract this information?

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