Actino introduces enhanced Auto-Link for automated hyperlink creation in PDF

Actino Software has released an enhanced version of Auto-Link, its solution for automatically creating hyperlinks and navigation structures in PDF documents. Hyperlinks are essential for efficient navigation in complex documents – and particularly important for accessible PDFs. Creating and maintaining them manually, however, can become a significant task when documents contain hundreds or thousands of references: https://www.actino.de/produkte/auto-link/

Auto-Link automates this process. Based on configurable rules and patterns, the software identifies references within PDF content and automatically creates the corresponding links and destinations. The solution can be used for a wide range of linking requirements, including footnotes and endnotes, cross-references, references to sections or pages, external URLs, links to other documents and files, bookmarks, named destinations and glossary references. Return links can also be created where required, allowing users to navigate back to the original reference.

The revised version further extends the flexibility of these automated linking workflows and is designed for both individual complex documents and large-scale document production. This is particularly valuable for technical documentation, standards, legal publications, scientific content, manuals and other highly structured documents, where consistent navigation is essential but manual hyperlinking is time-consuming and prone to errors.

Auto-Link can also support accessible document production by making references easier to navigate for keyboard and assistive-technology users and by integrating hyperlink creation into automated PDF/UA workflows. The objective is simple: wherever a relationship between information can be identified by a rule, Auto-Link can turn it into navigation – automatically, consistently and at scale.