LEADTOOLS Document Imaging

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Module
Programmable virtual printer driver for capturing output from any application and saving searchable PDF, Doc, RTF, text and more.

The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer module includes a programmable virtual printer driver that can capture output from any application as EMF and save it as a searchable document format or any of the over 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS. Additionally, this module includes several document writers to programmatically convert output from the virtual printer or EMF to several popular searchable document formats.

Virtual Printer DriverCapture data from any application.

Capture print output from any application such as Word, Excel and web browsers as EMF and save as a searchable document format or any of the 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS. Because the printer driver provides data as EMF, the virtual printer driver is a natural companion to the document writers. The resulting converted output can then be saved to disk, stream, database or SharePoint® as searchable PDF, DOC, HTML or any of the over 150 formats supported by LEADTOOLS.

Capture output from any application including Word, Excel and web browsers.
Supports over 150 output formats including searchable PDF.
Redirect print jobs to disk, memory, database or SharePoint®.
Create a Print to PACS solution when used with the LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging.
Automate workflow by creating multiple task based virtual printers.

Document WritersConvert virtual printer output and EMF to several popular searchable document formats.

The document writers support conversion of EMF to the following text based, searchable document formats:

EMF to PDF
EMF to PDF/A
EMF to Doc
EMF to RTF
EMF to HTML
EMF to ANSI and Unicode text

Why EMF?

Windows Enhanced Meta File (EMF) is standard in Windows. An EMF is a collection of structures that store a picture in a device-independent format. EMF can contain various objects such as text, lines and raster images. EMF also contains resolution or Dots/Inch (DPI) information that is used to calculate the real size of the picture stored inside. Windows Enhanced Meta File (EMF) objects can be obtained from various sources, for example:

LEADTOOLS Annotation supports creating an EMF file representation of annotation objects. Therefore, you can use the Annotations toolkit to create a document and populate it with various annotations objects and then save the result as a searchable PDF file for example using the LEADTOOLS Document Writers. The Document Writer demo shipping with the LEADTOOLS Toolkit shows how an example on this scenario.
The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Driver supports capturing output from any Windows application as an EMF handle. You can then use the LEADTOOLS Document Writers to convert this output to several popular document formats such as searchable PDF, HTML or a DOC document.
The Windows Enhanced Meta File (EMF) is a standard format in Microsoft Windows. Many other applications and frameworks provide support for outputting as EMF. You can convert the output from any such application or framework to any of the document formats supported by the LEADTOOLS Document Writers.

The Virtual Printer Module and related products are available below:

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer Module

The Virtual Printer module is included with the following toolkits:

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Enterprise

The Virtual Printer module can be added to the following toolkits: