How to internally index a PDF?

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We are creating a large PDF financial document for a customer. A set
of pages form a statement. There are multiple statements in the PDF
file. They have asked to have it internally "indexed" by 3 types of
information which appears on the statements: Account Number, Payee
Name, Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number. I
suspect that a given SSN, for example, could possibly reference
multiple statements.

I don't even know if this is possible to represent in a PDF. Can you
suggest a PDF/PDFTron feature? Perhaps hierarchical book marks with
the 3 categories at the top, and the unique keys as a sub-list for
each? Perhaps I should suggest Reader's FIND feature instead?

Thanks for any ideas.

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Hello,

You could organize the info using Bookmarks/Outline tree. For example of how to programmtically create and manipulate bookmarks, please see
http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/samplecode.html#Bookmark

You could also generate table of contents and use intra-document links to connect content. For example, see ‘e_Goto’ annotations in Annotation sample project (http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/samplecode.html#Annotation).

I suspect that a given SSN, for example, could possibly reference multiple statements.

In case of links you would need a separate link that references each statement/occurence (similar to a book index).

Hope this helps.