Black Ice Software has released the ability to save converted documents in a database with the optical character recognition (OCR) data.

With a single click users can print from any windows application, to OCR documents and then convert document to PDF, TIFF, etc..., and store the document with the OCR data directly in an SQL database.

The OCR engine can generate hOCR data or pain text data. The hOCR data contains font and character positioning information in html format. The hOCR data can be used for Database searches to query relevant information.

The documents can be printed, converted, OCR’d, and saved to the database through memory without having any footprint on the local System/PC remaining fully HIPAA compliant.

The OCR and Save to database feature uses ODBC interface and provides great flexibility to select any SQL database which is ODBC compatible.

The Upload or Save to database main parameters, such as Index field value and the Table name can be passed to the “Start Application” for each printed document for further post printing processing.

The new feature of print and Save to a database is an optional feature and can be disabled during the installation process.

The print and Save to database with OCR is available for the ColorPlus X1, PDF X1, and Tiff/Monochrome X1 printer drivers.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Printer Driver includes the following:

• Added "Upload OCR and hOCR" feature to Upload To Database (#11898)
• Added "Delete printed document after uploading" feature to Upload To Database (#11870)
• Added "Display error message in silent mode" feature to Upload To Database (#11871)
• Added INI file option to not write the "Number of Copies" key to the Group file (#11905)
• Stability improvements for Upload to Database, when trying to upload a document without password (#11913)
• Stability improvements for Upload to Database logging (#11908, #11910, #11915)
• Minor user interface improvements for Printer Manager, and Upload To Database (#11907, #11911, #11916, #11918, #11920, #11921, #11914, #11930, #11932)
• Stability improvements for Upload to Database when updating the Printer Driver (#11924)
• Improved Upload To Database to support Environment Variables for the log file (#11912)
• Stability improvements for Printer Manager update when the Printer Manager is opened (#11923)
• Updated manuals

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