While there are no tools for automatic indexing, the tools commonly
used for typesetting (LaTeX, troff) come with the ability to create
indices.

I've found in the past that automatically generated indices are
genrally very poor;  what the LaTeX (and texinfo and troff mm macro
packages, etc.,) do is to allow an author (or human indexer) to insert tags
with keywords next to where the subject of the keyword is described;
then the tool automatically associates the keyword(s) with a set of
pages that can be typeset.  It's possible to set up multiple indices
(e.g., a separate index for recipes in a  cookery book, or people in a
history)

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