axiomcrs,

On *nix, I have written indexing software to build book indexes. Author sends a manuscript in Word. I make sure the header or footer has the page number in it. I then export that to 'PDF' format. I then use the *nix command 'pdftohtml' to generate a large html file which includes the page number for the expected page size of the book.

Maybe a variation of this will generate what you need.

Regards...Ed