Creating a virtual printer to handle custom print job events
I'm looking to create a .NET virtual printer that I can install on client's machines and have them print to it so that I can do some custom print job events such as:
Parse the printjob for specific keywords and save the print out as PDF to specific folders depending on the keyword,
* OCR the printjob if needed to detect the keywords
* Anyone know of a library or software that can help me achieve this functionality?
Customer
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Building a custom virtual printer driver with VeryPDF Virtual Driver SDK
I need a PDF virtual printer driver SDK that could be seamlessly integrated with our own software.
The following is what we are expecting from the virtual printer driver sdk:
- On the output we receive EMF or PDF file (PDF is the most desirable)
- It could be installed from our setup app (even parameterized msi would do the job)
- Custom name for virtual printer
- Redirection to another printer
- Notification (executing app with parameters or event sent via named pipe) about start (nice to have) and end (must have) of the process
- Ability to work without the windows user logged in
- Ability to work as a network shared printer (nice to have)
- Printer need to be configurable somehow
- We need to hide ALL additional printer related software, control panels etc - it would be REALLY nice if our users have no obvious clues that the printer is provided by the third company
- Customizable DPI
- PDF can have embedded fonts (nice to have)
- Text extraction (plain text format - ANSI, Unicode or UTF-8)
- PDF Searchable format
- Supported OS Windows 2008R2/2012/Vista/7/8/8.1 driver
The printer will be integrated within our own software which will be publicly available to download. Please specify how the pricing would look like for such a solution.
Customer
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