I need an app that can parse page numbers and formatting that should be handled by styles from a student's document that has many footnotes, but either due to starting without styles, or by converting to PDF and back to Word, they have lost their styles.

I'm a librarian who is responsible for receiving their PDF documents and posting them online, and (in btter times) sending the printed copies to the binder.  This happens every May when someone is up against the deadline and they look to me for suport. I'm sure such an application exists, but my first stop in Googling it is here.

Any suggestions?

The thesis I'm dealing with now denotes the footnote number in 6pt type, and at the bottom of the page, there's an underscored line of spaces instead of a rule, then the footnotes are hardcoded with footnote number and citation  The page numbers are hardcoded.  The section breaks are properly inserted.

Thanks,

Cindy