toc2txt

Create textual table of contents with page numbers from LaTeX toc.

Demo

Using example.toc generated from https://github.com/HW-Lee/nthu-thesis-template

$ python toc2txt.py example.toc
       誌謝.....................................v
       Acknowledgements.......................vii
       摘要....................................ix
       Abstract................................xi
1      Introduction.............................1
1.1    Motivation...............................1
1.2    Goal.....................................2
1.3    Divide and Conquer.......................2
1.3.1  Definition...............................2
1.3.2  Main Contribution of This Dissertation...3
       Reducing the Difficulty of Problems......3
       Independence of Subproblems..............3
       Parallelism..............................3
2      Overview of OMR..........................5
2.1    Binarization.............................5
2.2    Staff Detection and Removal..............6
       References...............................7

Usage

1. Build your thesis PDF, generating the *.toc file in the process. For Overleaf see below.
2. (Optional) pip install wcwidth to calculate widths of CJK characters correctly.
3. python toc2txt.py filename.toc

Getting the .toc file from Overleaf

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