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Question Create index on epub from printed book

I wonder if there is a way to render the index (analytical index, not the table of contents) from a printed book without having to manually insert all the entries in Sigil's index editor. I've been working with books with very long and complex indexes, and re-creating them is a huge task. But since the indexes are already written and there's references to the page numbers, maybe there is a quicker way to do it?

I thought perhaps keeping the page numbers when saving the file from Finereader, then turning those numbers into invisible IDs to use as anchors to which to link the page numbers in the index (all doable with some regex wisdom). This solution, though, has at least one big problem: it only works on books whose page numbers are displayed at the top of the page (because the anchor needs to be before the page it refers to, and not after).

Anyone knows a better solution?

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