The Black Ice Printer Drivers, besides generating an image from the printed document, is also capable of extracting the text information from the printed document.
The text extracted from the document is saved as a standard text file, which can then be processed as necessary. The text file gets the same name as the image, but with the .txt extension.
Enabling Text Extraction
In order to configure Text Output in Black Ice printer driver, navigate to Control Panel > Devices and Printers > right click on the Black Ice Printer Driver > Printing Preferences > navigate to the Profile Manager tab and select the Text Output - Extract text from documents profile.
If the profile does not exist, navigate to Control Panel > Devices and Printers > right click on the Black Ice Printer Driver > Printing Preferences > navigate to the Text Output tab, and check the Generate Text Output option.
To retrieve the exact coordinates and styling of the text from the printed document, please select the Add font information, position and style option in the Formatting Style dropdown list. For more information, please refer to the Advanced Text Output.
Generate Text Output feature is able to recognize special character sequences in the printed text to extract text information in the text file and in the merge.mrg file. For more information please refer to the Mail Merge.
By default, the text file is generated as ANSI text, however, UNICODE text is also supported. In order to turn on the UNICODE text support, select a UNICODE option from the Character Set dropdown list.
For the limitations of the Generate Text Output feature, please refer to the Known Limitations.
For more information about the Text Output, please refer to the Text Output tab section.
Multipage and Single Page documents and Page Number delimiters
If the Save each page as separate file option is unchecked, and the printed document contains more than one page, all the extracted text is saved into a single text file. The text file contains delimiters for each new page in the “Page 1:”, “Page 2:” format. If the Save each page as separate file option is checked, a separate text file is generated for each image page generated by the driver.
One can disable the Page number delimiters in the text output by checking Disable Page Numbering option.
Example of how the Text Output works:
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For Example, if we printing a test page, the output file will look as the following:
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The generated text file contains the following lines:
Page 1: Windows XP Printer Test Page Congratulations! If you can read this information, you have correctly installed your Black Ice TIFF Driver on TEST3. The information below describes your printer driver and port settings. Submitted Time: 5:17:00 PM 9/20/2004 Computer name: ALPAR Printer name: Black Ice TIFF Printer model: Black Ice TIFF Driver Color support: No Port name(s): IcePortMR: Data format: NT EMF 1.003 Share name: Location: Comment: Driver name: BuMDrvNT.dll Data file: BuMIniNT.ini Config file: BuMUifNT.dll Driver version: 6.00 Environment: Windows NT x86 Default datatype: NT EMF 1.003
Additional files used by this driver: C:\XP\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\BuMResNT.DLL C:\XP\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\TIFF32.DLL (9, 1, 2, 0) C:\XP\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\JPEG32.DLL
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