

The general concept is that using current python library to parse pdf to text, image, layout, and style data, then using these data to rebuild the idml file that Indesign can read and edit. It is a potential format that could be translated and modified easily from other formats (PDF, PPT, EPUB.

Adobe made a descent job because those files can completely express the content of the native (binary) documents. IDML ( InDesign Markup Language) files are a Zip archives (Adobe calls them packages) storing essentially XML files. The biggist different is PDF2DTP parse the text to paragraph, while PDF2ID parse the text into single line. : A commercial software that can import PDF into Indesign.There are several solutions on the market, but not ideal or free. However, there is only one way transformation from Indesign to PDF, but not the other from PDF to Indesign.

PDF is the most popular format to record and present documents, Indesign is the most popular software to edit and layout the document.
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A project road map / structure will be described following to show the complete process of how to construct this program, and will build each component step by step after. The data/information includes text, images, layouts and styles.Ĭurrently, it just starts with this big idea, has not got any code yet. This project aims to translate the data/information from PDF to Indesign formate (IDML) by Python.
