Miraplacid Text Driver 2018 extracts text from any printable documents. After installation on your PC, Miraplacid Text Driver appears as a new printer in your system. When document is printed, Miraplacid Text Driver opens a dialog with Preview Window. You can save resulting text to file, upload to FTP or HTTP server, email it as a message text or attachment, print it to a real printer, or send to Clipboard.
You can save the extracted information as plain, formatted text or as XML or RSS / Atom feed for future processing in all installed codepages and Unicode.
Miraplacid Text Driver 2015 adds an icon to the desktop. All the documents you drag and drop to this icon will be printed behind the scenes and processed by Miraplacid Text Driver. Turn "Auto Save Mode" on to handle text extraction and processing automatically, without waiting for your input, and without User Iterface.
Filenames and paths of the resulting files can be constructed using special tags: {{TERMINAL}}, {{DOCNAME}}, {{EXT}}, {{USER}}, {{MACHINE}}, {{SYSFOLDER}}, {{PAGE}}, {{IDENTITY}}, {{JOB}}, {{DATE}} or {{TIME}}. They will be replaced with appropriate values.
With "Redirect to" option, you can print original print job to your physical printer at the time of extracting text. Version 2018 allows you to edit redirected print job in EMF format.
You can choose between Unix(LF) and Windows(CRLF) line breaks.
You can create multiple virtual text printers in your system, each with individual settings. If you need to save one document to disk file and send the other by email, just print the fist to one virtual printer and the other - to the second virtual printer.
Text Driver works as an external "Save as" feature for printer-ready software systems which allows to extract text document content and send it to various destinations.
Miraplacid Text Driver supports text printing from DOS programs.
As a developer, you may control printing process from your own scirpt or program.

If you wish to use Text Driver in Terminal Services environment, please, use special Terminal Server Edition of Text Driver.

If you wish to use Text Driver as integrated part of your own product, please, use Miraplacid Text Driver SDK.

To uninstall the product, you need to do one of the following:

• Click on Uninstall item in Text Driver program folder, follow the instructions and press Ok.
• Use "Add/Remove Program" applet in Windows Control Panel - choose and click "Miraplacid Text Driver" item.

New in version 2013 (5.9)

1. Driver components improved a lot - text capture quality and speed increased.
2. COM interfaces changed - now all information about print job available.
3. Modified Redirect feature allows to position and scale redirected documents precisely; new tab for redirect dedicated in User Interface.
4. Some minor fixes and enhancements in code, documentation and examples.

New in version 2012 (5.8)

1. Windows 8 32/64 bit compatible.
2. In this version it is possible to share Text Driver easily in 32/64-bit mixed environment.
3. COM interfaces changed and optimized.
4. This version works faster up to 40%; multithreaded engine improved a lot.
5. Driver optimized and some minor problems fixed in it.
6. Detailed progress information provided in user interface component.
7. Setup stability increased.
8. Printer settings can be applied to redirect and output printers.

New in version 2011 (5.7)

1. Text Driver supports several copies printing, with or without collation.
2. Some unnecessary and outdated options and modules removed.
3. Some fixes and updates made in software and documentation.

New in version 2011 (5.6)

1. It is possible to edit redirection print job - new methods in COM interface available for external scripts and custom UI components.
2. Redirect method allows developers to specify document name for redirected print jobs.
3. Text rendering quality improved a bit.
4. Some minor bugs fixed in software and documentation.

New in version 2010 (5.5)

1. New useful text rendering options in "Formatted" output style.
2. Compatibility redirection mode for old systems.
3. It is possible to use several User Interfaces, external programs and scripts connected to Text Driver, having actual set of options in each - new OnSettingChanged event.
4. Driver modules optimized.
5. Some minor bugs fixed in software and documentation.

New in version 2010 (5.4)

1. Printing speed increased up to 20%.
2. Text rendering quality significantly improved.
3. This version is 100% compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
4. Atom feed support added to RSS-Atom formatting style.
5. Empty print jobs handling corrected.
6. New "expert" options added to administration dialog.
7. COM model slightly optimized.
8. Some fixes made in software and documentation.

New in version 2009 (5.3)

1. Printing speed increased up to 40%.
2. Editable page number control allows you to navigate directly to desired page.
3. Text Driver now correctly monitors add/remove printer operations and default printer change.
4. New version redirects RAW print jobs to other printers (but, does not extract text from such jobs).
5. A new set of options for redirect print jobs added. Now, you have full control over your redirect.
6. New option Wait in File and Clipboard outputs helps to syncronize your automation tasks with Text Driver.
7. Email transport has an options to send printing results as an attachment.
8. COM model improved.
9. All standard paper sizes supported.
10. Many other fixes and useful additions made.

New in version 2009 (5.2)

1. Printing speed increased up to 20%.
2. Quality of text reconstruction greatly improved.
3. Reliability improved a lot.
4. New administration sofware which allows customers to control system parameters. No more manual registry changes! Also, this software provides a way to quickly and easily generate and send error reports to Miraplacid.
5. Text Driver monitors add/remove printer operations, so there is no need to reload it after such actions.
6. "Redirect to printer" feature is totally rebuilt and now it works in automatic or manual modes (for use from external programs and scripts).
7. Other software and documentation fixes made.

New in version 2008 (5.1)

1. There was a feature to use original document name in the saved file name, but it inflexible. For your convenience, we have added tag {{DOCNAME}} into file name and path. If path does not exists yet, it will be created. File exatension now represented by {{EXT}} tag.
2. FTP create recursive paths on FTP server when necessary.
3. Windows Vista Security Requirements compatibility improved.
4. When Windows prints text document, it sometimes splits a phrase into separate chunck. Miraplacid Text Driver usually does good job gluing it back together, but sometimes it needs a little bit of fine-tuning. New version has "Whitespase size". You can adjust it to help Miraplacid Text Driver to distinguish cunked phrases from separate columns of text.
5. Some problems fixed in software and documentation.
6. Administrators may save "Common settings" for users who do not have their profiles yet.

New in version 2007 (5.0)

1. Document printing and text extraction speed improved dramatically.
2. 64-bit OS support added.
3. Text formatting algorithm improved. Formatted output now looks much better than output of version 4.4 for the vast majority of source documents.
4. User interface dialog split into two windows: big preview window and settings dialog.
5. You can create multiple virtual printers with different text extraction and saving settings.
6. New options in text rendering plug-ins.
7. You can send output text by email.
8. You can send output text to Clipboard and launch a post-processor.
9. You can use output text as RSS feed.
10. HTTPS scheme works in HTTP transport.
11. Many new useful options in Pirnter transport.
12. "Separator page" feature works now.