The latest release of the Black Ice Printer Driver now includes a much faster text extraction feature!

The new Printer Driver can extract the text from the printed documents up-to 10 times faster than previous versions, helping customers to convert documents to text more efficiently. This is a critical update for customers who are using text extraction.

The highly improved Text Extraction performance affects all three types of text output:

• Plain text
• Text with layout
• Text with font information, position, and style

The Text Extraction feature is an efficient way to extract the text information from documents, then save it as a standard text file next to the printed document. Customers can take advantage of the text extraction feature in several ways depending on their business needs, such as archiving the text information from documents or building a searchable database with all their documents.

The new version of the Printer Driver also comes with major quality improvements for printing documents to PDF. Additionally, the latest Printer Driver comes with further stability improvements for printing vector arc objects.

Last but not least, the new improved PDF printing now includes a feature to print documents to PDF with or without a white page background, providing more control over how the PDF is generated.

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

DATE: 07-13-2021
Version: 16.60 (revision: 2677)

• Performance improvements for the Text Output (#14054)
• Fixed help links on the PDF Settings dialog and in the Printer Manager (#14207, #14208)

DATE: 07-12-2021
Version: 16.59 (revision: 2676)

• Fix for copy-pasting hyphen (-) characters from the generated PDF files (#14143)
• Added "Add White Background to Page" PDF option to turn on or off the drawing of the white background in the PDF output (#14147)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.0.731

DATE: 07-09-2021
Version: 16.58 (revision: 2673)

• Improved drawing of arcs in the PDF output (#14077)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.9.728

DATE: 07-05-2021
Version: 16.57 (revision: 2671)

• Removed invisible white background from the PDF output (#14147)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.8.727

DATE: 06-17-2021
Version: 16.56 (revision: 2668)

• Printing speed optimizations when Text Output is enabled (#14048)
• Added Printer Driver name and version to the installer's dialog titles (#12222)
• Removed large invisible rectangle from the PDF output (#14078)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.7.726

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