I will rebuild your PDF into an editable indesign file with real structure

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Apollo Cheng

About this gig

Text extraction from a PDF is easy. The tables are the problem: rows collapse, columns drift, cells merge, and what looked like a table in the original is often a stack of loose text boxes underneath.


I rebuild the structure, not just the appearance. Every table is reconstructed cell by cell, every paragraph gets a real style, and the whole document is set on master pages so it behaves like a native InDesign file rather than a traced copy.


What you get:

- Editable .indd with all images collected and linked

- Tables rebuilt cell by cell, with column widths and row heights you can change

- Paragraph, character and table styles attached to every element

- Master pages, running heads and correct page numbering

- A side-by-side proof so you can check the rebuild against your original

- Two revision rounds


This costs more than a Word conversion and takes longer, because the source has already lost the information a Word file still carries. I will tell you honestly before you order if a particular file is not worth rebuilding.


Send me your file and page count before ordering and I will confirm scope and turnaround within a few hours.



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Get to know Apollo Cheng

Apollo Cheng

InDesign Typesetting, PDF Automation, AI Workflow Specialist

  • FromHong Kong
  • Member sinceNov 2023
  • Avg. response time1 hour
  • Languages

    English, Chinese
20 years in Adobe InDesign for financial print: annual reports, filings and financial statements. I typeset complex tables - multi-column statements, notes to accounts, tables that continue across page breaks - and build PDF to InDesign conversions with real structure, not placed images. I also proofread financial PDFs, turn PDF comments into InDesign markup, and write Python tools for repeated PDF or Word steps. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed deadline. Print-ready output with bleed and crop marks. Two revision rounds. Daily progress notes. Hong Kong. English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

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