One of the most onerous, time-consuming tasks I deal with as a production designer is fixing layouts from designers who don't understand paragraph styles and efficient layout (No shade! They have other things to focus on and hey… that's why my job exists!)

I would like an AI that can recognize multiple separate type objects on a page, combine them into single text boxes with paragraph styles that control spacing.

In the screenshots, you first see a typical "designer" layout (again, no shade) with ten separate objects with formatting for each applied on top of the default Basic Paragraph style.

The second is a quick-and-dirty manual cleanup to consolidate objects into one text box with paragraph styles, rules and bullets.

I would like AI to visually read the logic of groups of items that could then be consolidated as single objects while create all Paragraph and Character Styles in the process.

For long documents, I'd then want to use the initial created styles to continue consolidating and apply those existing styles to subsequent pages, as well as adding new styles as needed where unique formatting occurs.

This would reduce production cleanup time by hours or days, depending on how long a document is.