JetPCL^® Document Capture : detail

JetPCL Document Capture is a desktop print driver designed to be used either as a stand alone end user electronic document capture utility or as an interface into a larger server based electronic document application. It captures a printed document from the users desktop and renders it using JetPCL into an electronic document in Adobe PDF or standard TIFF format. When finished, it can be configured to launch a viewer so the user can see the output.

When JetPCL Document Capture is installed, it adds a print driver to the system. Once this is done, the user can print to this driver from any Windows application and JetPCL Document Capture will capture the print job into an electronic document file. Depending on how it is configured, it will generate an Adobe Acrobat PDF file or a standard TIFF file at 200, 300 or 600 dpi resolution. By default it is configured to launch a viewer for display when the capture is complete. This can be the default system viewer or a user specified custom viewer. JetPCL Document Capture can be configured to capture to a specific folder and to ask the user for a capture file name or it can generate a capture name automatically.

JetPCL Document Capture is completely configurable from either the print driver Properties page or by running the JpConfig utility from the start menu.

Once the installation is complete, the simplest test would be to run Microsoft Word, or your favorite word processing application, and try printing to the JetPCL Document Capture printer. Depending on how JetPCL Document Capture is configured, it may display your captured document in a viewer. Assuming that you installed the JDC evaluation kit, then by default it will be setup to capture the document to a PDF file and then launch Acrobat for viewing when finished. Or you can change the configuration to capture to a TIFF file. Most Windows systems include a default TIFF viewer.

For user interaction during testing, select 'Query output file' and it will ask the user for the capture file name.

Additionally, PCL data files can be copied directly to the JetPCL Document Capture printer (or printed in RAW mode) and they will be captured as if they were printed from a Windows application.

For IT programmers or software developers, JetPCL Document Capture allows the developer to specify a Pre-Process executable and a Post-Process executable that will be called during processing. The pre-process is called at the start of the capture and the post-process is called afterward. The capture output file is passed to the post-process. Either of these processes can display a user interface for gathering user information if needed and either may cancel the print job. The post-process is expected to take the capture output file for final processing (for example delivery via fax/email or submission into a document management system).

When installed as part of a developer application, many of the configuration settings can be pre-defined by the developer so that installation does not require any additional changes by the end user. Similarly, the developer can define which setting can be changed by the user and which ones may not be modified.

JetPCL Document Capture features:

• JetPCL Document Capture installs/uninstalls very easily on Windows Win32 desktop and server systems.
• JetPCL Document Capture allows any application to generate electronic documents in PDF ot TIFF formats.
• JetPCL Document Capture can be setup as a user interface to a server based application. It has a developer API designed for integration. Contact Tech Know Systems for the developer API documentation.
• The JetPCL Document Capture installation can be customized so it installs with only the settings your IT department has decided it needs. This way the end user does not need to make special configuration changes and cannot easily break the installation.