Comment preparation
Turn PDF marks into the source document's real structure
Some corrections don't ask to replace words but to change how a fragment should live
inside the source document. The reviewer points at a text in the PDF and writes a short, agreed
mark, such as [NEGRITA], to indicate a specific structural action.
What's failing
A person easily understands that [NEGRITA] means "this fragment should be
bold", but the source document needs an exact structural instruction. The
editorial intention must be translated into the specific tag or template that
document uses, without turning the comment into text inserted literally.
What IMC does
You define what each mark means and how it should be carried to the source. {text}
represents exactly the fragment marked in the PDF. IMC applies that structure during the
same return to the source in which it processes the normal corrections: no second pass and no
AI used to interpret the mark.
Commented PDF
Marked text: editorial review
Comment: [NEGRITA]
Your configuration: [NEGRITA] → <emphasis role="bold">{text}</emphasis>
Resulting source
<emphasis role="bold">editorial review</emphasis>
The words don't change. What changes is how that fragment ends up structured in the source document.
Important It's not a standalone utility
Marks are an add-on of the return to the source, not an independent converter: they are applied within the same process as the ordinary corrections. That's why, when you reach the home page, IMC also selects the editorial workspace, which is the journey that runs them. They are chosen and charged separately.
How far it goes today
- It's available for tagged source documents provided as text: XML, HTML and LaTeX.
- InDesign, Word and FrameMaker appear as "Coming soon": combining those journeys with the mark → template table isn't verified yet.
- DocBook, TXT and DOCX are outside this capability, even though the editorial workspace does accept them for ordinary corrections.
- The mark must appear alone and exactly as you configured it:
[NEGRITA] pleaseis treated as a regular comment. - Each template accepts a single
{text}. General prefixes and suffixes aren't active in V4 yet.
Your files
Applying the marks uses no AI. Your PDF and your source document are uploaded over a secure connection and processed on a server, as in the rest of the return-to-source journey. The process is kept for 30 days, with its files and its results, so you can continue it, and you can delete it earlier whenever you want. How we handle your files.
Configure your marks
We'll open "Your editorial process" with the marks and their host journey already selected, and with the mark + template configurator at hand.
Configure my marksYou process and check the result for free in the workspace. If everything is fine, you pay and download the processed document.