clawPDF - Virtual PDF/OCR/Image Printer

Yet another PDF/OCR/Image Printer? Yes! This PDF/OCR/Image Printer has the intention to be completely open source.

Open Source virtual PDF printer for Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 / Windows Server RDS
Print to PDF, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b, OCR, PDF/X, PDF/Image, PNG, JPEG, TIF and TXT.

Download

https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF/releases/download/0.8.9/clawPDF_0.8.9_setup.msi

Features

• Print to PDF, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b, OCR, PDF/X, PDF/Image, PNG, JPEG, TIF and TXT
• Print 100% valid PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Scripting Interface (Python, Powershell, VBScript...)
• Drag and Drop Support
• Merge Files
• Command Line Support
• Silent Printing
• Custom Paper Sizes / Standard Paper Sizes
• Full Unicode Support
• Multiple Profiles
• Post Actions
• Create additional printers with assigned profile
• 24 translations. Add yours!
• Many settings
• Easy to use
• Easy to deploy (MSI-Installer & Config)
• No adware, spyware, nagware

Demo

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Print a PDF/A and protect it with a password

Merge multiple documents

Tested under

• Windows Server 2022 RDS
• Windows Server 2019 RDS
• Windows Server 2016 RDS
• Windows 11 x64
• Windows 10 x32/x64
• Windows 8 x32/x64
• Windows 7 x32/x64

Commandline

Batch Printing

The GUID for the Profile parameter is located under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\clawSoft\clawPDF\Settings\ConversionProfiles\[id]\Guid

clawPDF.exe /PrintFile=D:\example.docx /profile=f81ea998-3a76-4104-a574-9a66d6f3039b
clawPDF.exe /PrintFile=D:\example.pdf /profile=JpegGuid
clawPDF.exe /PrintFile=D:\example.pdf /profile=JpegGuid /OutputPath=D:\batchjob

clawPDF.exe /PrintFile=D:\example.txt /printerName=clawPDF2
clawPDF.exe /PrintFile=D:\example.docx /printerName=clawJPG

Overwrite Config

- To deploy a default configuration in an enterprise environment.
- To export a configuration select "Application Settings -> Debug -> Save settings to file".

clawPDF.exe /Config=D:\clawPDF.ini

Printer Managment

SetupHelper.exe /Printer=Add /Name=ExamplePrinter
SetupHelper.exe /Printer=Remove /Name=ExamplePrinter

ManagePrintJobs

clawPDF.exe /ManagePrintJobs

Changelog

v0.8.9 (2023.03.22)

• [feature] Scripting Interface

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Requirements

• .Net Framework 4.6.2+

Build

• Visual Studio 2022

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Third-party

clawPDF uses the following licensed software or parts of the source code:

• PDFCreator (https://github.com/pdfforge/PDFCreator), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• PDF library: iTextSharp (https://github.com/itext/itextsharp), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• Logging: Nlog (https://github.com/NLog/NLog), licensed under BSD 3-Clause.
• Parts of the ghostscript control: PdfScribe (https://github.com/stchan/PdfScribe), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• Redirection Port Monitor: clawmon (https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawmon), licensed under GPL v2 license.
• Postscript Printer Drivers: Microsoft Postscript Printer Driver V3 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/microsoft-postscript-printer-driver), copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
• Postscript and PDF interpreter/renderer: Ghostscript 10 (https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
• SystemWrapper (https://github.com/jozefizso/SystemWrapper), licensed under Microsoft Public license.
• Ftplib (https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=ftplib), licensed under MIT license.
• DataStorage.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• DynamicTranslator.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• TrueTypeFontInfo.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
• Appbar_save (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
• Appbar_cogs (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
• Appbar_page_file_pdf (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

License

clawPDF is licensed under AGPL v3 license
Copyright (C) 2023 // Andrew Hess // clawSoft