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I want to reference a specific page in another pdf document. There is also a bookmark on that page, which I could use.

However, I have no control over the other document, and maybe it wasn't even created with Tex.

Is there a way to extract labels from the file that I could use with \hyperref or xr, or which other packages or commands could I use?

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    Usually you refer to other (external) sources by citing them, e.g. \cite. As far as i understood, \ref is really made only for inernal referencing.
    – Ruben
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 9:26
  • This would be nice for referencing in large document packs.
    – Forkrul Assail
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 18:22
  • The beginning of your question seems to imply you know the page you want to open to; Adobe's documentation at adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/… has examples of opening pdf documents via URL (I would guess a "file://" would work too). So now the issue is to create a clickable URL in your document. I am puzzled by the second part of your question: Even if you extracted all the labels in the file, how would you know which specific label to target?
    – user1823664
    Commented Aug 13, 2013 at 13:50
  • Well, I could try them all or at least hope that they are named somewhat reasonable so that I can identify the one I need. That link you provided mentions "named destinations", that looks promising. I'll see if I can extract those from the document.
    – Cephalopod
    Commented Aug 13, 2013 at 14:15
  • The hyperref package is not worked in latex to give reference in latex of external.pdf document
    – N R SREENATHA
    Commented Jan 7, 2020 at 9:16

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If the external PDF is generated with pdflatex without labels or with another program as LibreOffice, you can use \href of package hyperref with the option [page=x]. Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Some text.  
\href[page=4]{external.pdf}{See page 4 of the external PDF} 
\end{document}

Unfortunately, this work with Acrobat Reader but not with others as Evince, for example. This is a problem of the viewer, not the LaTeX code.

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user1823664's documentation link gave me another lead.

In Acrobat, under View > Show/Hide > Navigation Pane > Destinations one can find a list of destinations in the document. They can be referenced via

\href{external.pdf#thedestination}{See other stuff of the external PDF}
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