A professional indexer with 25+ years' experience creates your back-of-book index for you — no software to learn, no AI output to clean up yourself. Send your manuscript and receive a clean, publication-ready index.
Led by an MLIS indexer with 5,500+ indexes since 1999 · Trusted with unpublished manuscripts
Three simple steps from manuscript to finished index.
Upload your PDF and a few instructions — style, depth, any must-include terms, and your deadline.
A professional indexer builds and refines your index — using modern tools to work faster, never to replace the judgment a good index needs.
Delivered in your preferred format — Word, RTF, or embedded — ready to typeset and publish.
Both are done for you by a professional indexer — choose the depth and speed your project needs.
Faster and more affordable, for tight deadlines and budgets — still done and checked by a professional.
The full treatment — built and perfected by hand by a professional indexer.
Priced by indexable page count; minimum project fees apply. Submit your book and we'll confirm your exact quote before any payment — no surprises.
Clear Indexing is run by a professional book indexer with a Master's in Library & Information Science (MLIS) and more than 5,500 completed indexes since 1999. Over 25 years, we've indexed for many of the world's leading university presses and publishers, across health and medicine, law and political science, history, sociology, business and economics, the arts, psychology, and technical fields.
Software can extract words; it takes a professional to build an index — deciding what matters, how concepts connect, and how a reader will actually look things up. Every index we deliver is created and refined by an experienced indexer, so you hand off a manuscript and get back a finished index, not a draft to fix yourself.
A representative selection from 270+ recent titles, indexed across a wide range of scholarly and trade subjects.
Both are done for you by a professional — the difference is depth. The Express Index is AI-accelerated with a professional's review: quick and affordable. The Professional Index is built and perfected by hand — merged concepts, subentries, cross-references, and your style applied throughout — the standard for a published book.
AI tools hand you a raw draft and leave the reviewing, fixing, and formatting to you. Clear Indexing is a service, not software: an experienced indexer does the work for you and stands behind the result. There's nothing to learn, upload and troubleshoot, or clean up — you simply receive a finished index. Weighing your options? See our guide: How to hire a professional book indexer.
By indexable page count. Submit your book through the form and we'll confirm the exact quote before you pay anything, so there are no surprises. For typical rates and what affects them, see our guide: How much does a book index cost?
Word, RTF, plain text, or an embedded index — just tell us what your typesetter or publisher needs.
Yes. Your file is used solely to create your index, handled in strict confidence, processed through a service that does not train on your content, and deleted after delivery.
Scholarly and academic titles, nonfiction, technical manuals, cookbooks, memoirs, and more. Tell us your subject area in the form and we'll confirm fit.
Send us your manuscript and instructions. We'll reply with a quote and a delivery date — usually within a few hours.
Start your index or email hello@clearindexing.com