The new plugin is said to be the first tool to provide a seamless conversion solution.
Based in Osaka, Japan, Recosoft Corporation is a developer of cross platform file format conversion solutions and PDF tools. The latest of these, PDF2ID, is designed to convert PDF documents to the Adobe InDesign CS2 and CS3 format. Operating as a plugin PDF2ID performs the conversion from within InDesign, thereby eliminating the need for dedicated PDF conversion tools. Each page in the PDF file is converted to an equivalent in the resulting InDesign document.
The conversion process includes automatically forming paragraphs, applying styles, regrouping independent graphic elements, extracting images, creating tables and recovering annotations and other elements automatically. The plugin is said to use an interface similar to that of InDesign and supports English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Western European-language data contained in PDF documents.
PDF2ID 1.0 can be pre-ordered on the PDF2ID site beginning August 1, with a beta version provided to customers until the final version is available in September, 2007.

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