Animateing InDesign Objects in After Effects

Hay all,
i got an little problem. I need to animate single Objects in InDesign and need to do this in After Effects.
is there a way to import the InDesign File into After Effects so i can animate every single Object ? It is too much work to import every single Objekt out of the InDesign Project and assemble everything together.
kind regards
Dennis

No. Your only option would be to export a PDF from ID, but you cannot access separate objects inside the PDf, so this is more or less useless....
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