Access Adobe InDesign files

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I need some directions for the following problem:

I have a lot of InDesign files and i have to setup a process that will track if a certain paragraph or text block has changed between diferent versions of the file. If the text block has changed i want to extract that text block in a "portable" format (html, pdf, txt).

Is there an Adobe product that would do that ?
Is there any public API to access an InDesign file ?
Is there the posibility to export InDesign to, say, html ?

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