Extract Links from PDF

Checking the links in a report, a brochure or an e-book by clicking through every page is slow. This tool collects them all at once: the clickable links stored in the PDF (web pages, e-mail and phone links, and optionally jumps to other pages) plus web addresses and e-mail addresses that are only written in the text. You get a copyable list, a table with page numbers and link text, and a CSV — all worked out in your browser.

How to use this tool

1. Choose one or more PDFs.
2. Choose what to look for: clickable links, addresses written in the text, internal page links.
3. Keep "list each address once" for a clean list, or untick it to see every occurrence by page.
4. Copy the list or download the CSV for a spreadsheet or link checker.

Formula

Clickable links are Link annotations with a URI action (or a destination for internal links); the link text is the text inside the link rectangle. Written addresses are matched line by line with a pattern for http(s)://, ftp:// and www. addresses and one for e-mail addresses; trailing punctuation and unbalanced brackets are trimmed.

Duplicates are matched case-insensitively, ignoring http/https, "www." and a trailing slash, so https://example.com/ and www.example.com count as one address.

Example

Say a 24-page annual report has 18 clickable links and 13 addresses typed in the text: the tool reports 31 links found. If many of them repeat, "each address once" collapses them — for example to 12 unique addresses, each with the pages it appears on (www.example.org — pages 2, 9, 24 — 3 times).