Hi,
I discovered your HookPrinter software while doing research on the current situation we have. We are trying to communicate various pieces of data from a receipt to an external database / website / computer. We were wondering if your software could be utilized for this.
Basically, when a receipt is being printed from the POS system we would like to send all this information to a database/spreadsheet/cloud that we could access directly for data tracking purposes.
We would like it to sit outside of the POS system as we may be working with a number of different POS systems and require this to work for all of them, hence where the receipt printer idea came from.
Let me know what you think and if this is something we can do with you guys. Does your software have limitations? Does it require a certain printer? etc.?
Kind regards
Customer
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Thanks for your message, is your POS Printer installed on the Windows system? if yes, I guess our HookPrinter SDK software able to capture the print jobs from it.
We suggest you may download following products from our website to try, we hope these products will useful to you,
>>How to get VeryPDF/VeryDOC (HookPrinter) Printer Capturer?
Thanks for your message, we have more types of Printer Capturer software, you can use these software to capture the print jobs to PDF files, and then forward the print jobs to another Windows Printer, you can download and test these software from following URLs,
Solution 1. VeryPDF HookPrinter SDK
With VeryPDF HookPrinter SDK software, you can capture printer output that would normally go to a communications port such as LPT1. Useful for second stage processing such as creating PDF files, ripping, or distribution of printer output.
You can download and test VeryPDF HookPrinter SDK from following web page,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/hookprinter/index.html
https://www.verypdf.com/dl2.php/HookPrinter.zip
Please refer to user manual of VeryPDF HookPrinter SDK from this web page,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/hookprinter/user-guide.html
Solution 2. VeryPDF docPrint Pro with HookPrinter (Printer Capturer)
VeryPDF docPrint Pro v8.0 contains two virtual printers and a HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) module, after you install docPrint Pro v8.0 software, you will see two virtual printers appear in the Printer & Fax folder in your Windows system, you can run following command line to install or uninstall HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) module,
"C:\Program Files (x86)\docPrint Pro v8.0\artprint.exe" -hookprinter
after you enable HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) Module, you can print a document to any of your Windows printers (except for docPrint, because docPrint is used for an intermediate printer).
HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) will work by following steps,
1. You are enable HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) Module first, print a document to "HP LaserJet Professional P1108" or other printers,
2. HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) Module captures this print job, redirect it to docPrint virtual printer,
3. HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) Module also convert this print job to PDF, EMF, WMF, TIFF, PNG, JPG formats and save to predefined folder according to configuration parameters,
4. docPrint virtual printer receives this print job, it does convert this print job to PDF, PS, EPS, TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, etc. formats first, and then forward this print job to original printer ("HP LaserJet Professional P1108" or other printers) continue,
5. OK, the original printing process does continue and without any interruption, but the print job be converted to PDF, PS, EPS, TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, etc. formats and save to predefined folder,
You can download docPrint Pro v8.0 with HookPrinter (Printer Capturer) from this web page for evaluation,
https://www.verypdf.com/artprint/docprint_pro_setup.exe
Please by following steps to test "-hookprinter" option,
1. Download and install docPrint Pro v8.0 version,
2. Run following application to set Printer Capturer options,
"C:\Program Files (x86)\docPrint Pro v8.0\artprint.exe" -hookprinter
* You need set "Output folder" to save captured documents.
* You need click "Install HookPrinter" button to install Printer Capturer.
* You need click "Save&Close" button to close this dialog, and print a document to an arbitrary Windows Printer, you will get captured documents appear in predefined folder automatically.
3. OK.
"-hookprinter" option will capture everything that you sent to any Windows Printer. If you want just print a document to docPrint first, and then forward to other printers, you can use "-forwardprinter" option, for example,
"C:\Program Files (x86)\docPrint Pro v8.0\artprint.exe" -forwardprinter
After you set the options, click "Save&Close" button to close the setting dialog, when an user print a document to docPrint, docPrint will process the print job first, and then redirect the print job to predefined printer (or associated printer) automatically.
"-hookprinter" and "-forwardprinter" are two total different printer capture and forwarding methods, you can choose either one according to your requirements.
Solution 3. Print a document to docPrint or docPrint PDF Driver and save to a new PDF or image or other formats.
This solution is simple, after you install the docPrint Pro software, you will see two printers appear in the Printer&Fax folder, docPrint and docPrint PDF Driver. You can simple print a document to docPrint or docPrint PDF Driver and save to a new PDF or image or other formats easily.
***See Also:
VeryPDF Released docPrint Pro v8.0 today, docPrint Pro v8.0 is able to make a connection between docPrint and other Windows Printers,
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201804/verypdf-release-notes-verypdf-released-docprint-pro-v8-0-today-docprint-pro-v8-0-is-able-to-make-a-connection-between-docprint-and-other-windows-printers-43787.html
How to intercept and capture a print job and convert it to PDF & Plain Text & Image files and then print?
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201802/how-to-intercept-and-capture-a-print-job-and-convert-it-to-pdf-plain-text-image-files-and-then-print-43680.html
Saving a pending print job as PDF. Save Print Job in Queue as PDF. Save All Print Jobs As PDF. Convert Spool request to PDF and send as e-mail. Converting Print spool output in to a PDF. Convert Spool File to PDF. Convert Spool Files to PDF Excel and more. Capture Print Data and Save to PDF.
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201608/saving-a-pending-print-job-as-pdf-save-print-job-in-queue-as-pdf-save-all-print-jobs-as-pdf-convert-spool-request-to-pdf-and-send-as-e-mail-converting-print-spool-output-in-to-a-pdf-convert-spool-42957.html
Need to capture a print job. How to capture a print job from Windows Print Spooler system?
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201704/need-to-capture-a-print-job-how-to-capture-a-print-job-from-windows-print-spooler-system-43392.html
Print documents to virtual printer first, virtual printer will create PDF files and then forward printed documents to physical printer,
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201708/print-documents-to-virtual-printer-first-virtual-printer-will-create-pdf-files-and-then-forward-printed-documents-to-physical-printer-43570.html
VeryPDF Released docPrint Pro v8.0 today, docPrint Pro v8.0 is able to make a connection between docPrint and other Windows Printers,
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201804/verypdf-release-notes-verypdf-released-docprint-pro-v8-0-today-docprint-pro-v8-0-is-able-to-make-a-connection-between-docprint-and-other-windows-printers-43787.html
How to get VeryPDF Printer Capturer?
https://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201701/how-to-get-verypdf-printer-capturer-43213.html
VeryPDF
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I believe your software will be able to solve our problems are we go with you.
I just want to confirm a few things before we proceed.
*1. *Can this data that is being saved be converted into a spreadsheet (or saved directly as a spreadsheet) or is it just image files? I want to be able to access this data and manipulate it without having to manually open up the images and seeing what data was on the receipts.
*2. *Does this work with Epson Receipt Printers?
*3. *Can this data/spreadsheet/folder of saved receipts be sent over to a cloud database such as Google Drive so we don't have to physically be at the PC to access this information?
Thanks for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Customer
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>>*1. *Can this data that is being saved be converted into a spreadsheet (or saved directly as a spreadsheet) or is it just image files? I want to be able to access this data and manipulate it without having to manually open up the images and seeing what data was on the receipts.
The captured print jobs can be saved to PDF and Image files, they can't be saved to spreadsheet or text or Word documents directly.
However, after you get the PDF or Image files, you can use following software to convert from PDF or Image files to Word, Excel or Text files,
VeryPDF PDF to Excel OCR Converter
https://www.verypdf.com/pdf-to-excel-ocr/index.html
VeryPDF PDF to Word OCR Converter
https://www.verypdf.com/pdf-to-excel-ocr/index.html
VeryPDF PDF to Text OCR Converter Command Line
https://www.verypdf.com/app/pdf-to-text-ocr-converter/index.html
VeryPDF OCR to Any Converter Command Line
https://www.verypdf.com/app/ocr-to-any-converter-cmd/index.html
>>*2. *Does this work with Epson Receipt Printers?
Yes, HookPrinter SDK supports Epson Receipt Printers.
>>*3. *Can this data/spreadsheet/folder of saved receipts be sent over to a cloud database such as Google Drive so we don't have to physically be at the PC to access this information?
Of course, the captured data can be sent to cloud disk such as Google Drive, but this work needs to be done by some additional development cost. We may put this work to the second step if you need.
The first, you may download the trial version of HookPrinter SDK from our website to try, if you encounter any problem, please feel free to let us know, we are glad to assist you asap.
https://www.verypdf.com/app/hookprinter/index.html
VeryPDF