How to Create a Table of Contents in Eve

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Overview

Discovery productions and employee files often arrive as one enormous PDF holding dozens of separate documents inside it. The Create table of contents agent reads every page, works out where each sub-document begins and ends, and returns an interactive index you can click through.

Where pages carry Bates stamps, those are extracted too.

Before You Start

  • The PDF uploaded to the matter.

  • A file that actually contains multiple sub-documents. A single continuous document has nothing to index.

Steps

  1. Open See All Agents in the matter and select Create table of contents.

  2. Select the documents to analyze from the file picker.

  3. Confirm to start. Eve shows an outline of the task while it works and returns the table within minutes.

  4. Review the result. Each row is clickable and jumps to that document's location in the larger file. Check that the sub-documents were identified correctly before relying on the index.

Keeping the Table of Contents

Two options, and they do different things:

  • Save to the matter. Click the save icon in the top right. This creates an editable draft in the matter that can be revised and later exported to Word.

  • Download as CSV. Click Export at the bottom of the response.

Limits

  • The index is a snapshot. Adding files to the matter afterwards does not update it, so re-run the agent to take new files in.

  • Identification is done by reading the pages, so a scan with poor text extraction will produce a weaker index than a clean one. See 📄 Eve's Capabilities and Limitations for what Eve extracts from each file type.