Although InDesign can place .pdf documents into graphics frames, it can not import it in proper sense for edit purposes. The only viable option would be to use special Markzware plugin called PDF2DTP that allows users to import PDF documents to DPT layout programs like InDesign or QuarkXpress, which is what you essentially need for pdf to indd conversion.
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Conversion of pdf file format to indd file format beta
Search for pdf to indd converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Adobe Portable document format to Adobe InDesign document.
We have found 3 software records in our database eligible for .pdf to .indd file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert pdf to indd on Windows
Adobe InDesign
Professional desktop document publishing software from Adobe
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from pdf file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
to indd file | Yes, Adobe InDesign supports indd file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | indd editor | Yes | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned pdf to indd. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
PDF2DTP
A PDF to desktop publishing conversion plugin
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert pdf to indd on macOS
Adobe InDesign for Mac
Mac version od Adobe's popular document designing and publishing software
Additional links: Open pdf file, Open indd file
A pdf file extension is mainly used for Adobe Portable document format, commonly referred to as PDF. All programs that create some sort of documents or projects offer the possibility to export their format to PDF format. A free PDF viewer (Adobe Reader) is available for download from Adobe website.
INDD
Files with indd extension are associated with Adobe InDesign and used for its default InDesign document format. InDesign is used to create graphically rich documents, brochures and other more sophisticated texts. It was a part of Adobe Creative suite and currently of Adobe Creative Cloud.
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