PageTech Announces Release of its New PCLMagic Printer Drivers

San Diego, CA. – November 30, 2011 – PageTech, the leader in PCL print stream transformation, extraction, and re-engineering software, today announced the release of its new PCLMagic Printer Driver.  This new industry-exclusive PCL printer driver embeds searchable text into PCL print streams before the printer driver generates them, saving all the text in its natural unscrambled [...]

extract text from .tnx file

Recently we purchased PCL SDK Option I. We want to convert/extract text from an .tnx file to a plain ascii file programatically. Is there an API doing this job like tnxdump? This post was submitted by Sean Royama.

How to get searchable text from Crystal Reports

Any text contained in a Crystal TextObject produces scrambled text – we can unscramble it.  However, that takes up to 2 hrs. and it makes it more sensitive to font, stroke weight and point size changes.  If you use a “formula field” (rather than textobjects) and pick 12 pt printer resident Courier (not Courier New) [...]

Creating Searchable PDF Files from PCL

Various PageTech products can create text-searchable, raster or vector PDF’s… depending on the nature (what driver/options) and composition (selections of fonts, symbol sets, etc.) of your PCL.  However, extracting text from a PCL file is often much more difficult than rendering the PCL to another format. We will need to analyze your PCL in order to [...]