Convert PDF to INDD
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC can edit PDF's read images and text, and it is possible to edit, so why is this function not available in Adobe Indesign? Indesign has more control and the only feature that will needed to be added is detecting strokes/filled objects converting filled lines or shapes to one to the other.

Convert PDF to InDesign (beta) feature is available in InDesign 20.3 Release in English (North America) and English (International) languages.
More details on this feature are available at https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/convert-pdf-to-indesign-file.html
When a PDF is opened in this release of InDesign, an option to submit your feedback on the conversion is shown. Please let us know your feedback.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Adriana Parra commented
It doesn't work
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Vero commented
I feels like editing in Acrobat for some projects still, like a novel interior's book.
It brakes the pages in many boxes (just like Acrobat) so I can't "run" the text through the pages. Unless you also have an extension to link all the boxes in a file at once.
Plus Acrobat doesn't mess the Table of Content like this conversion did with a PDF created in InDesign today. -
Unknown User commented
It doesn't work
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Erwin commented
It doesn't work ;-((
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ramy commented
I updated to indesign 19.5 beta but when choose file --open
there are no pdf files to select them -
Kelsey Parker commented
Lots of third party plug ins have been created - why not pick one of them to implement? Here's one from a "illustrator to indesign conversion" youtube search https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyzFMKVxRE
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r commented
What Colornet Web says would be very helpful
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Colornet Web commented
How about being able to save a PDF with a IDML embedded for editing? Something like Adobe Illustrator does?
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Mark Anufrijev commented
Switching to corel, this is nonsense...
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LegUpTools commented
Conversion from PDF to InDesign is now available at www.leguptools.com. Conversions cost 25c per page.
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ramy commented
Is Markzware plugin Support Arabic language ( Right to left direction ) ??????
I need answering to this question please -
ramy commented
We need to Convert PDF to INDD
Now we are in 2023 and this feature is has been "Added to Backlog " since 2018
we already paying so much for the suit, we shouldn't be paying 3rd parties for this feature -
James commented
I find it amazing that it's been 5 years since the feature has been "Added to Backlog", and in that time, Affinity has developed an entire platform where we can open PDFs as editable layout documents. And yet, Adobe still hasn't managed to do it.
Affinity Publisher isn't perfect in the process of converting a PDF to an editable Publisher document, but it's good enough to be a major feature that is nearly enough reason alone to buy the software.
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Sabine commented
I am on the production site. Customers often send PDFs. At the moment my solution is affinity, but it should be indesign - not to change programs in the middle of the process.
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Nuno Ferreira commented
Affinity Publisher allows to import PDF into Indesign with editable text. Of course it depends on the way the PDF is structured, but it is a really nice feature.
Adobe, wake UP!
Indesign paying customers deserve A LOT MORE for the money the subscription costs! -
Amber dawe commented
This feature is significant; for example, when creating in Adobe Express, you can only download it as a PNG, JPEG or PDF, which doesn't give you many options to expand. Still, if I could convert pdfs to INDD, I would be able to make edits while also allowing you to change the file so you can send it to clients who only have access to Microsoft software. It also would save me so much time! Please look into this. I don't want to have to pay for other programs when I want to stay with adobe; it is just earlier.
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Ashley Watson commented
Please take a look at this, the extensions you can buy are so expensive and should be a built in feature considering most the PDFs have been created in indesign. Thanks
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Anonymous commented
Currently use Markzware plug in but agree to make InDesign fullly functional pdf to idml would be a great feature to have in Indesign
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Ken Maynard commented
Hey Adobe... Get this one out of the backlog and make it a priority -- it's been in your backlog for almost 3 YEARS!!!
This is such an essential, nonsense need. My creative team could have saved about 4 hours this week had we been able to recover a layout from the PDF generated from the original InDesign source file... after that InDesign file was corrupted.
PLEASE stop sleeping on this one.
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Hoshiyar Singh commented
Abinav and team, pls let us know when this feature would be taken into consideration...