What this tool does
From the commented PDF to the document you actually have to correct
Someone reviewed a PDF and returned comments. The real work starts afterwards: locating each correction, deciding what to do with it and taking it to the source document without breaking it. Insert My Comments takes care of that stretch.
The starting point is a PDF with comments
Notes, highlights, strikethroughs, replacement texts, long instructions and doubts: PDFs arrive as they arrive, generated by third parties and reviewed by several people. IMC doesn't require the PDF to have been born in a perfect circuit. It starts from the file you have.
You say what you have and what you need; IMC composes the journey
You don't choose a program before understanding what you want to achieve. You choose the case and the goal, and the tool works out which operations are needed, in what order, which files you must provide and what you will receive.
- You state what you need to do and what your source document is: InDesign, Word, FrameMaker, plain text or XML / HTML / LaTeX.
- IMC orders the compatible operations into a single journey and shows the price before running anything.
- The whole journey is processed, with whatever internal conversions it needs, without asking you for intermediate steps.
- When the journey includes review, you do it on what IMC has located and proposed.
- You receive the results that correspond to that journey.
What IMC can do
Prepare or repair the PDF
Diagnose why a program won't import the comments, restore a PDF's connection with its document of origin, or move the live annotations to a healthy PDF. It's what's needed when the journey can't even begin.
Improve the comments
Reduce a wordy instruction to the specific correction, adjust the insertion context, convert highlights into executable replacements, take the long texts out to a reviewable document and return them afterwards, or add formatting marks.
Return the corrections to the source
Through your program's own route, when it exists: IMC prepares or repairs the PDF and you do the import in your own installation. Or through the editorial workspace, when there is no native route or the one there is falls short.
Having IMC run the import into your document online is planned for InDesign, Word and FrameMaker, and is not yet available.
Combine several operations
Preparing and then applying is a single process, not two loose jobs. IMC chains the compatible operations and hands the result of one to the next without you having to upload anything again.
The editorial workspace is one of the journeys, not all of IMC
The workspace shows the PDF on one side and the source document on the other, locates each correction in the real text and prepares proposals you can accept, edit or discard before applying them. It's the most visible journey and probably the one you associate with IMC, but it's one piece within a wider process: there are cases solved before reaching it and cases that don't even pass through it.
Check before paying, when the journey allows it
IMC's preferred model is that the result is produced first and you verify it works in your own environment before paying anything: payment unlocks a file that already exists — it doesn't generate it or calculate it again. That model is offered when the operation can sustain it technically and constitutes the process on its own. In the editorial workspace it takes another form: processing and seeing the real result are free, and what you pay for is downloading the already-processed source document. Not every journey offers it, and the tool tells you in each case what applies to yours.
How far it goes
- Results depend on the journey and the format: not every case ends in the same kind of delivery.
- IMC reduces the mechanical work —searching, switching windows, copying, pasting, repeating—, not the editorial judgement.
- Doubtful cases are flagged instead of silently resolved: when something can't be stated, it is said.
- IMC certifies what it can verify inside the file. The final test is yours, in your own installation.
Try it with your files
You'll see the journey, the files needed and the price before running anything.