GENERATING AND PRINTING TARGET PAGE NUMBERS OVER LINKS WHILE PRINTING DOCUMENTS OR WEB PAGES

A method and system for generating information related to links in a document by preprocessing the document for at least one link within the document followed by modifying content of the document such that the modified content includes information related to at least one link within the document in an augmented format and displaying the modified document. Embodiments of the invention relate to generating and printing target page numbers over internal links appearing in a document or web page to indicate physical location of the links in the same document or web page. Embodiments of the invention also generate and print hyperlinks over external links, pointing to some external document or html page, appearing in a document or web page. Embodiments of the invention relate to generating and printing information relating to an action link appearing in a printed document.