Miraplacid Text Driver

Platform: Windows 2008/Windows 7/Windows 8.x/Windows 10/Windows 11. 32/64 bit platforms supported

Miraplacid Text Driver 2025 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.

Miraplacid Text Driver Preview Window Miraplacid Text Driver Settings Dialog

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.

On Windows 10+, Miraplacid Text Driver 2025 includes OCR capability. It can extract text from image only print jobs or jobs which do not contain text.

Miraplacid Text Driver 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. It 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 first 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.

Miraplacid Text Driver can be uninstalled anytime.
More information

If you wish to use Text Driver in Terminal Services environment, please, use 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

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File size 8.8M

Last update August 9, 2025

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New in version 2025 (8.0)

  1. Printer driver in version 2025 is color printer. That means, you can redirect your jobs to color printers as-is.
  2. Version 2025 includes OCR feature on Windows 10+. Now, Text Driver will extract text from any printing applications.
  3. Programming interface accepts any kind of integer values, including 64-bit.
  4. Rendering plugin 2D discontinued and removed from Text Driver.
  5. Several bugs fixed and improvements made in software and documentation.

New in version 2024 (7.1)

  1. Setup now includes functionality to install 32-bit driver on 64-bit platform and vice versa, to make printer sharing easier.
  2. Version 2025 can pick up RAW text print jobs, get text from them and make it awailable for further processing.
  3. Several bugs fixed and improvements made in software and documentation.

New in version 2022 (7.0)

  1. On 64-bit Windows this version of Text Driver installed as a completely 64-bit software. This is the major change. 32-bit Windows is still supported.
  2. Several bugs fixed and improvements made in software and documentation.
  3. Windows XP/2003 is not longer supported.

New in version 2020 (6.2)

  1. Text lines height option improved, now it allows to use fixed lines height.
  2. Several bugs fixed and improvements made in software and documentation.
  3. All third-party components and libraries updated to their newest versions.

New in version 2018 (6.1)

  1. New option added to most of rendering plug-ins which allows to control text lines height.
  2. On heavy loaded systems works faster up to 15%, consumes less system resources.
  3. Installer component allows to install only driver part of the package, useful for shared printing.
  4. Some minor fixes and enhancements in code, documentation and examples.

New in version 2015 (6.0)

  1. Driver components significantly improved - text extraction quality and speed increased.
  2. COM interfaces changed - it is possible to catch asynchronous events on property changes.
  3. Text Driver totally rebuilt internally, it is not dependent anymore from outdated software components.
  4. New "Printing timeout" option added to administration software.
  5. Some minor fixes and enhancements in code, documentation and examples.

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OCR comments

 If print job does not contain text, Miraplacid Text Driver converts print job pages to images and extracts text from from these images. This method of text exctraction does not guarantee 100% of text restoration accuracy and its quality is hightly dependent of used fonts, document layout and content density. To use this method successfully in automatic mode, you need to print several test document of the same kind and verify that everything recognized ok. Please, test quality and correctness of documents generated with OCR.
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Miraplacid Text Driver 2025 includes all the features missed in previous versions you asked for. If you think that something is still missing, please email us and we will do our best to add it to the next version of Miraplacid Text Driver.

If you need support, or have questions or suggestions, contact us via e-mail support@miraplacid.com