Bookalope is a set of intelligent tools that ingest documents in Word or similar formats, including (broken, invalid) ebooks, then analyze their semantic structure and clean up the document, and convert them into various file formats.

The Bookalope extension enables seamless access to these tools from InDesign. To use the extension, however, an account with Bookalope and an access token are required: https://bookalope.net/

After selecting a document and filling in some optional metadata, the extension uploads the document to the server and waits. Upon finishing the document analysis and conversion, Bookalope returns an InDesign file in IDML format with a semantically structured and clean document, as well as a valid mapping of paragraph classes and inlined text to HTML tags.

The extension loads that converted document into a new InDesign document . If the structure was not identified precisely, then adjustments can be made through the Bookalope website and the extension refreshes the local InDesign document using these server-side adjustments.

Furthermore, other file formats can be downloaded directly through the extension, including accessible EPUB or print-ready PDF.

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Simplified code, adjusted to server changes.

The Bookalope extension can be opened through the Window → Bookalope menu.

Bookalope, its documentation and tutorials, login and access token can be found on the website: https://bookalope.net

The Bookalope extension for InDesign is available as an open-source project on Github: https://github.com/jenstroeger/Bookalope-CEP