Miraplacid Text Driver : Extract Text from Documents
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Miraplacid Text Driver 3.1: User's Manual
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Start Text Extraction
To start new text extraction, open a document with printing-supported application
and print the document
In the "Print" dialog select "Miraplacid Text Driver"
in a "Select Printer" ("Printer Name") box and click "Print"
Alternatively, you can drag and drop a document to Miraplacid Text Driver desktop icon.
Registration Dialog
If you have not registered the Miraplacid Text Driver yet,
the first thing you will see will be Registration Dialog
If you are not going to register the product right now, just click "Continue" button.
If you want to buy the product, click "Buy Online"
If you have purchased the product and received registration code,
enter your first name, last name and the registration code you got and click
"Register" button. First name, last name and registration code are case sensitive.
Registration Window will disappear after product registration.
Miraplacid Text Driver Dialog
The next step is Miraplacid Text Driver Dialog. It contains preview window, information controls, configuration controls and buttons described below.
Document Name and Information window
The name of the document you printed is displayed in the very top of the dialog.
Information list box on the right side displays current state of the Miraplacid Text Driver and activity history.
Preview Window
Large Preview Window on the left side of the dialog displays extracted text. Preview window displays one page at a time. If the document you printed is multiple-pages, "Next" and "Previous" buttons help you to navigate through the pages.
You can edit the text in the preview window and save changes to disk, but changing "Output Style" causes text re-formatting and loss of all the changing you made. Miraplacid Text Driver will warn you in all the situations when you can possibly loose changes.
Navigation
 
Use "Previous" and "Next" buttons to navigate through the pages in multiple-pages document.
Output Style
There are two output styles - Plain Text and Text with Layout. Plain Text output just joins all the text on every line. You can specify a delimiter to separate strings. Default delimiter is blank character. Text with Layout output makes the output text looks like the original document. It is useful for tables and diagrams conversion. Additionally, Miraplacid Text Driver contains XML output format. This format can be used by advanced users for custom text processing and formatting.
Character Set
It is recommended to use ANSI Latin-1 Windows character set for ASCII output unless you need non-English characters support. Besides, you can save output text as Unicode.
End of Line Style
It is recommended to use "Windows" End-Of-Line style unless you preparing a text file to be used on Unix.
Overwrite / Append mode
"Overwrite" mode overwrites existing file. It is recommended to use "Append" mode to avoid data loss.
File Name and Path, File Browser
"Browse" button on the right bottom side of the dialog opens Directory Browser in the Preview Window. The directory you choose there will be automatically substituted to the Output Path textbox. Click "Preview" button to switch back to output text preview mode.
Alternatively, you can type output path manually.
"Filename" textbox is for output file name.
You can use {{DATE}}, {{TIME}}, {{IDENTITY}}, {{PAGE}} and {{JOB}}
constructions in filename and directory name.
They will be replaced with current date, time, some unique number, page number and print job id respectively.
Refresh and New Folder
 
These buttons appears in Directory Browser mode. "Refresh"
refreshes directory tree.
"New Folder" create new subfolder in the currently selected folder.
Save and Save All
 
"Save" button saves current page to the specified file.
"Save All" button saves all the pages to the specified file and get prepared for the next document (see "Done" command below).
Done and Hide
 
When you are done with current document, click "Done" button.
If there is no pending printed documents, Miraplacid Text Driver will turn to Idle state.
Otherwise, first page of the next printed document will appear in the Preview window.
If there are no unprocessed printed documents, "Done" button become "Hide" button.
Minimize to Tray
Miraplacid Text Driver adds an icon to Windows System Tray. Right click the icon to open popup menu.
If there are no unprocessed printed documents, you can minimize Miraplacid Text Driver dialog with "Hide" button. Besides, you can hide the dialog at any point with button:
To restore the window, double click Miraplacid Text Driver tray icon or choose "Open" in the icon popup menu.
Auto Save Mode
If you want Miraplacid Text Driver to save all the extracted text to the specified file without your interaction, check "Auto Save Mode" checkbox on the dialog or in the Tray Icon popup menu. Current document and all the following documents will be auto-saved to the specified output file. If Auto Save Mode is off and there was idle and new document has been printed, Miraplacid Text Driver dialog appears on a screen. It does not happen when Auto Save Mode is turned on for your convenience.
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