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Simon
Simon

Reputation: 5247

Printer driver send to web server

I need to "hack" a program to export some data. The only way the program can output is via printing. How can I hijack this? The OS is Windows Embedded.

I was originally thinking "print to pdf" program/spoof printer driver and then ftp to server for processing. However this may require OCR for PDF decode.

Or is there a way to send a postscript stream to a server? I guess postscript would be better as I can decode it easier.

I don't know anything about printers/protocols etc.

Could I source/write an IPP (internet printing protocol) client in node.js and just add it as a normal printer in Windows?

The server software is node.js.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 996

Answers (1)

Simon
Simon

Reputation: 5247

I expect the performance of "print to pdf to ftp to OCR decode" will suck. So I have taken on the mammoth task of writing an IPP server in node...

Upvotes: 1

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