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This article is from October 1, 2009, and is no longer current.
PR: PDF2ID Significant Update 2.1 Released
PRESS RELEASE:
PDF2ID v2.1 – Significant update to the only PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool released.
Osaka, Japan — October 1, 2009 – Recosoft Corporation the developer of the PDF2Office® family of products, PDF2ID tool for Adobe® InDesign®, cross platform file format conversion solutions and PDF converters has released PDF2ID Standard and Professional v2.1. PDF2ID Standard/Professional v2.1 improves PDF-to-InDesign conversions and has been qualified for Mac OS X 10.6 and Windows 7.
PDF2ID v2.1 includes additional refinements further easing the PDF-to-InDesign conversion process.
PDF2ID is the only PDF converter available for InDesign® CS2-CS4 offering a direct, transparent and effortless process for PDF-to-InDesign® document conversion.
PDF2ID has been engineered from the ground-up to provide seamless integration with Adobe® InDesign® CS2-CS4 eliminating the necessity to acquire and install additional PDF data recovery tools; resulting in enhanced workflow automation and providing huge cost savings in both time and expense.
Key New Enhancements and Changes
Greek and Russian language support: PDF2ID has been enhanced to recognize and process Greek and Russian text contained in PDF files.
Target Color Profile specification: When colors are converted from RGB/Lab to the CMYK space or converted from the CMYK/Lab to the RGB space a target color profile can be specified.
Preferred Language/Encoding Font mappings: Starting with PDF2ID v2.1 preferred font mappings for the various languages/encodings supported can be specified via the Preferences.
Acrobat 9 security policy support: PDF2ID v2.1 now supports the security specification of Acrobat 9.
Enhanced PDF to InDesign Conversion: Changes have been introduced to the PDF-to-InDesign conversion technology resulting in better paragraph generation, layout recreation, graphics reconstruction and tables creation. Furthermore, minor stability
improvements have also been made.
All customers who own a license of PDF2ID Standard/Professional v2.0 are entitled to a free upgrade to PDF2ID Standard/Professional v2.1
About Recosoft Corporation
Recosoft Corporation is headquartered at Osaka, Japan and is the developer and provider of cross platform software and information technology solutions. The company is a leader in designing and delivering PDF converters and PDF file conversion software solutions enhancing workflow automation and productivity.
©Copyright 2009 Recosoft Corporation
PDF2Office and PDF2ID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Recosoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe and InDesign are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe System Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are recognized and are the property of their respective owners.
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Glad to see that all customers who own the PDF2ID license version 2.0 are going to get the 2.1 version. Keep ’em coming !
Does this really work as advertised? How about a review somewhere?
I’m curious about reviews as well. From what I’ve read at their site, I don’t see the worth of it:
https://recosoft.com/products/pdf2id/scope.htm
I am curious as to what it can do. To me it sounds like it will open a PDF file and you can turn into an ID file. But it’s limited so far as editing and re-purposing.
Can anyone shed some light on it?
(NOTE: No offense intended towards the company or anyone. I’m just confused by the claims and the descriptions. For example:
“PDF2ID has been designed to provide editing flexibility rather than a pure and 100% reconstruction of a PDF file to the InDesign format.
PDF2ID doesn’t make InDesign a PDF file-editing tool. PDF2ID doesn’t provide round-tripping of a PDF file to an editable InDesign file type. Rather, the primary scope and objective of PDF2ID is to provide a seamless and transparent mechanism for PDF data recovery and reuse within InDesign. To achieve this, PDF2ID does its best to preserve the layout while reconstructing data along with the respective property and elements wherever possible.”
Hmm . . . I guess I should have looked a little further!
https://creativepro.com/pdf-to-indesign-i-have-seen-the-future.php
So maybe it’s a start? I would be more interested in how it converts a table (since I work with lots of tables)! A lot of it in a crummy old publishing software that shall remain nameless (unless I’m pushed). I guess I will have to try the trial version. I’ll let you know what I find out.
Hi there,
think there’s a significant difference to what the `ABBYY Transformer´ does, that is based on OCR-Technology, I guess… dunnow — Yet direct recovery/conversion/extraction should be possible… I have to be engaged in that product… Sounds good so far / tx+greetz > David —
I use ABBYY PDF Transformer and it’s pretty good for things like getting a table to Excel. But you really have to tweak almost every aspect of a complicated table to get it to split cells like you want. It doesn’t do it very well automatically.
But to be able to go to straight from PDF to ID would be GREAT!
PDF2ID is not magic, but it can be a lifesaver when you need to get content out of a file and all you have is a PDF. I have used it many times and every time I have the experience of “wow, this is incredible” mixed with “dang, I have to do some cleanup here.” How much cleanup depends entirely on what I’m converting.
But as I said: the plug-in isn’t magic, and it cannot do things like know what the names of paragraph styles were in the original INDD file (that’s not saved in the PDF, so how would it know?) or know how a page was originally constructed in INDD. But I still think it’s worth having a copy of this around — you’ll thank yourself the first time you find yourself needing it.
Another caveat is that it only works on PDF 1.4 file versions and above. You would get a rude awakening on trying it with any lower version, as some have angrily noted.
[[Editor’s note: See Recosoft’s comment below pointing out that this is incorrect.]]
Tried the trial version with mixed success. As far as tables (which I use a lot) I’m better off sticking with ABBYY PDF Transformer to make Word or Excel files first.
When I tried to convert several pages of different tables using PDF2ID it created tables but placed almost every cell inside the table cell (a cell inside a cell – got that?). In other instances it couldn’t tell where a complete table was and split it into several tables. Too much trouble cleaning this up.
The process for making an ID file worked pretty good. The layout was pretty close to the original. Had some font issues (which I expected).
I’ll check back for version 3.0! Too much money for what it does and doesn’t do at this time.
In response to Mark Hebert’s posting:
PDF2ID has always supported PDF versions 1.1 and above. So the statement that the PDF version has to be v1.4 is incorrect. If you personally know of a situation it doesn’t work with a certain PDF file contact us at infoATrecosoft.com with the details and the appropriate PDF files.
In response to awh with respect to tables posting:
Feel free to send the files that didn’t convert well to infoATrecosoft.com and we will inspect it from our end.
Uh, sorry, but I already un-installed the trial version and removed the files.
I can send you the PDF I was testing.
In response to awh:
We just require the original PDF files. Not the converted output (we can produce the output at our end).
If you can send the original PDF files to infoATrecosoft.com and mention you had problems converting the files (and specify exactly what was not proper) someone at Recosoft will inspect the files (they may not respond to you but we will look at it).
In response to Paul Chadha:
I saw nothing on the Recosoft site to say otherwise. My data was from this post on the now dormant Tim Cole site:
https://blogs.adobe.com/indesignchannel/2008/02/id_conference_miami_beach_reco.html
You would think you would see this data from the company itself in it’s features list. So I hope you get to adding this oversight to your site.
In response to Mark Hebert:
Mark, thank you for directing me to that web site.
The specific reference in that blog by Tim Cole mentioned is referring to the transparency property being flattened in PDF files when applied to an image (not really whether PDF2ID supports PDF v1.2 or even v1.3 data).
This is a PDF specification limitation where the transparency property was not available until PDF specification v1.4; and not a PDF2ID limitation (I’d also like to add that just because a PDF 1.4, 1.5, v1.6 or v1.7 file is generated, the transparency property may or may not exist; its dependent on the PDF creation mechanism).
On our web site at the following web page:
https://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2id/scope.htm
There is a statement about PDF2ID honoring the transparency property (I’ve copied the statement for your reference):
“Finally, transparencies and graphics transformations such as rotations, shearing and scaling are also converted to an equivalent InDesign data type.”
I’ll intimate our site maintenance staff that we can probably make the information a little more clear.
We are happy with PDF2ID and we use it mainly to get and order the images in a folder per page. For bigger documents it is really a timesaver.
We don’t use it for tables, it is too messy – very similar to how illustrator will read a pdf table – you can modify cell values and some times paste colomns, but thats it – the result is not a table, you can not format it as a table.
That’s great…i’ve just lost the indd file and i wanna reconvert the pdf file generated into a indd file…
but…there’s a problem: the pdf contains itself pdf tecnical drawings…and they aren’t converted as images but are converted as lines, circles, object etc..(very very heavy….) ….is there a way to convert them as jpg/tiff/ images? maybe some options to check/uncheck??
tnks
Silvia
In response to Silvia
At present PDF2ID will convert vector data to vector. It won’t convert Vector to Image.
What you’re asking for is something we’re considering for a future release of PDF2ID.
If it was possible to link the vector data into the document instead of creating it inside the doc, I would be happy. It doesn’t matter to me at all if the linked vector graphics are AI, EPS or InDesign documents, but having the links there instead of the graphics themselves would help tremendously in handling the main document.
It will work a *lot* better if the vector graphics that today are grouped together instead are written as separate small indesign documents and placed as graphics. Linking .indd documents as graphics into indesign is possible from CS3 and onwards.
I can’t download the 2.1 trial version, where are the links to download? :(
After reading this and going to recosoft’s website, I find the price a bit steep. I found out that Markzware’s coming out with a PDF2DTP conversion tool. I only see the QuarkXPress version now, does anyone know when the InDesign version is coming out?