Can I create multiple hyperlinks to the same location at once?

Question

Hello all - I'm a first-time poster here hoping for some guidance creating links in a document.  The docs I'm working with are maps, made from .JPG images combined with a text index into a PDF file.  The index was created in MS Word, then saved as a PDF so it can be combined with the .JPG files as a single document.  The index consists of locations with page numbers indicating the .JPG page where they can be found.  An example portion of the index is below (it looks rather sloppy here, but is aligned as a table in the actual document):
S
SAN JUAN CREEK                                                     3208
SAN JUAN ROCK                                                       3302
SPECIAL USE AREA (NO ANCHORING)                 3306
SPIRIT OF DANA POINT (TALL SHIP)                      3203
STATE LIFEGUARD HEADQUARTERS                    3208
T
TURK'S - 34683 GOLDEN LANTERN                     3206
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WEST ANCHORAGE                                                  3203
WEST BASIN                                                              3204
WEST JETTY                                                               3203, 3303-06
     So here's my question.  I know how to create a link from the text number for page 3208 that will jump me to that actual page in the PDF document.  But is there a way to batch process this?  Each page number appears multiple times throughout the index.  So rather than manually finding every time the number 3208 appears in the text and creating a link to that page each time, is there some way I can highlight all instances of that number at once, and only have to perform the action of linking to page 3208 just one time?  Since I'll still have to do this for all the different pages in the document, only having to do it once per page would save a lot of time.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Answer 1

It's possible to do it, but it requires a complex script or external tool.
I've recently developed a tool that allows you to search multiple PDF files and do various things with the results. One of those things is place links above them. This tool is very powerful and even allows you to use Regular Expressions, so you don't need to search for "3208" and then link it to page 3208, and then do the same with "3203", "3206", etc., but you can search for "\d{4}" and it will find all the instances of four-digit numbers and link them to their matching pages.
You can contact me personally to discuss it further at [try6767 at gmail dot com] or via a PM.