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1. page Detected images are excluded from the segmentation process and stored in a single www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 57 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual layer This gives images a unique appearance without any disturbance by segmentation artifacts The resolution of the detected images can be controlled as follows a Regular image resolution sets the image resolution identical to the resolution used for the background image This obtains the highest compression rates b Increased image resolution sets the image resolution slightly higher than the regular background resolution Images become sharper but file sizes slightly increase c High image resolution sets the image resolution to the maximum possible value to obtain the best image quality Compared to increased image resolution the file sizes are even larger but still smaller compared to the document class Photo where no segmentation is used This option is only available in either of the MRC compression modes The detection of images on a page does not increase the processing time if OCR is enabled If the compression is done without OCR the detection of images adds a certain amount to the overall processing time Enable activate only when using OCR to only use this feature when OCR is enabled So there is no increase in processing time but advanced image detection will not be used for job list entries without OCR Note The PDF layers
2. Configuring File and Data Embedding The Embedding tab of the Properties dialog lets you configure options for several types of embedding files or supplementary data into your PDF output files www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 45 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Embedding Data Embedding XMF Metadat AMP metadata can be read from XMP Metadata Embedding XMP metadata can be read fom PDF output j ey PDF bookmarks can be read from ee eal XML fies and embedded into the PDF output OCR Result Embedding Options Existing OCR results can be read from AML files and added to the POF output as hidden text File Embedding Files can be embedded as attachments into the E Embed input file PDF except for PDF A 1 and PDF A 2 output bed cert Configuring Data Embedding The three buttons under Data Embedding serve to configure the embedding three different kinds of supplementary data in your PDF output files All three kinds of data XMP metadata PDF bookmarks and XML OCR results are read from files containing XML of a corresponding dialect The XML encoding must be UTF 8 Note Input processing as configured for the job see Configuring Post Processing p 37 to move or delete the input files after processing is applied to these files only if they are located next to the main input files General input directory and have non static file names escape sequences in their file name
3. PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 2 The Metadata Filter options allow you to skip processing of PDF input files depending on the PDF metadata Skipped files will not be processed to output files Instead they are passed directly to input file post processing see Configuring Post Processing p 37 a Depending on the selection skipping is done either for PDF files that match the filter criteria or for PDF input files that do not match b The filter criterion is matched in case the Metadata key to check is found in the PDF Metadata and its value matches the Search text below c Depending on the Option Match whole value the Search text is either compared to the complete value or searched as part of the metadata value d Skipped input files can be copied to a directory by enabling Copy skipped files to directory Office Input Options On the Office Input tab you can configure options for the Born Digital conversion of Microsoft Office input files Advanced Input Options input Fitter Office E Use Excel page layout E Process MS Office documents with OpenOffice E Remove tagging information except for PDF A level A 1 If the Use Excel page layout option is selected the print page layout as specified inside the Excel input files is used when converting this file to PDF This option is disabled by default such that each non empty sheet inside an Excel input file is converted to one PDF output page 2 When Process MS Office
4. Adobe Reader 6 0 PDF 1 5 Adobe Reader 6 0 PDF 1 5 is able to handle JPEG 2000 image compression If you choose this format foreground and text color images of MRC compressed pages will be stored in JPEG 2000 Part1 format This results in better image quality and smaller file sizes But files created in this format require a viewer to support at least PDF 1 5 to be properly displayed c Adobe Reader 7 0 PDF 1 6 The Adobe Reader 7 0 compatibility mode uses the same PDF features as for Adobe Reader 6 0 with the only exception that larger page sizes are supported With Adobe Reader 6 0 compatibility the page size is limited to 200 by 200 inches With Adobe Reader 7 0 compatibility there is no such limit d PDF A 1a ISO 19005 1 The text edit window for the output folder accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop a folder from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 26 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Same as PDF A 1b but with automatically inserted rudimentary tagging information to conform to basic requirements of PDF A 1a e PDF A 1b ISO 19005 1 This is the basic compliance level of the original PDF A document standard for long term preservation It is based on PDF 1 5 with further restrictions regarding e g metadata encryption and transparency f PDF A 2b ISO 19005 2 PDF A 2 is a revision
5. HX Long date representation appropriate to current locale For example Tuesday March 14 1995 Used for conditional and regular expression substitutions See Conditional Substitution and Regular Expression Substitution p 62 Moreover adding the character to shortcuts that output numbers will remove leading zeros in most cases Modifiers 0 lt number gt P Minimal number of output characters 0 lt number gt Q This modifier defines the number of preceding zeros 0 lt number gt L used to format a page number The modifier starts 0 lt number gt N with the digit O and is followed by one or more 0 lt number gt C digits representing the minimal number of output characters as a decimal number lt number gt Defines a substring of the given file name lt number gt F This modifier is composed by two integer numbers separated by a minus sign If the modifier is present only a substring of the filename will be substituted The numbers represent the first and the last character index counting from 0 of the substring Any number greater or equal to the string length will be adjusted to represent the last character of the string www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 61 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Modifier Examples Page Number Substitution 0 Examples When a 10 pages document MyFile tif is output into chunks of 4 pages the output file
6. Manual You can configure entries to access different net shares within your network or you might use them to create different versions of PDF files high resolution high quality up to low resolution high compression from the same input files The complete job list can be stored to a file or restored from a file to enable backup functionality or the management of completely different setups Job Entry and its Properties Within each entry you define its properties e what kind of input is accessed a file all files within a folder what file types etc e how itis accessed once or frequently to make a folder a hot folder e where to put the output e what to do incase of an error e what additional data metadata is to be added e how to compress the data quality resolution PDF compatibility etc Each entry can be started and stopped individually allowing you to run individual file conversions to your needs Default Properties Since most of the time you will not want to create job entries with completely different settings you can configure default properties for new entries Whenever you create a new entry the settings of the default entry will be used as a template With a properly chosen set of default properties converting files to PDF is achieved by simply dragging amp dropping files onto the list and pressing the start button PDF Compressor Service Normally you will not notice the underlying Windows se
7. Manual c high quality switches foreground sub sampling off Additionally a higher foreground image compression ratio is used to limit the increase in file size Color reproduction for text and lines is further improved This option may be used to work around problems with PDF Viewer applications that do not render the standard sub sampled foreground in full quality d max quality results in maximum text and line color quality at significantly increased output file size No foreground sub sampling and standard compression ratio 3 There are two JB G2 options The first one selects from two different compression schemes a High compression efficiency uses a sophisticated symbol matching algorithm that obtains very high compression results especially if the input image contains a lot of similar pattern like characters of a font This option should be normally used b Fast encoding disables the symbol matching resulting in a slightly faster compression but also in larger file sizes The second option is only available for high compression efficiency c Lossy encoding gives the smallest file sizes d Lossless encoding gives larger file sizes but does not change the text mask Use this option for 100 quality and to prevent symbol mismatches in case of low resolution or low symbol quality 4 Image Coder Options determine which image codec is used for color images embedded into the various layers of the created PDF documents e g
8. Must not contain Q or its versions with modifiers Must not contain PDF bookmarks any characters disallowed for file names May be constant strings XML OCR results without any escape sequences file attachments Output file naming Must at least contain one of P L C or its versions with modifiers when page based output splitting is enabled Must at least contain one of P L C V or its versions with modifiers when barcode triggered output splitting is enabled Must not contain Q or its versions with modifiers Must not contain any characters disallowed for file names Thumbnail file Must not contain L N or its versions with modifiers naming Must not contain any characters disallowed for file names Escape Sequences Substitution F Input file or directory name File name for single file input processing directory name when merging files from a directory into a single PDF output file The file name is printed without file extension for PDF P First page number that is output to the PDF file metadata or output file name a Current page number in output document header footer or thumbnail output Hour in 12 hour format 01 12 Day of year as decimal number 001 366 www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 60 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual MHC Long date and time representation appropriate for current locale For example Tuesday March 14 1995 12 41 29
9. None Do not add any relationship information to the output PDFs Note PDF A 3 requires a relationship be specified for each embedded file Thus PDF Compressor automatically sets the relationship to Unspecified when this option is selected and compatibility is set to PDF A 3 ii Unspecified To be used when the relationship is not known or can t be described using one of the other values below iii Source To be used if the attachment is the original source material for the document iv Data To be used if the attachment represents information used to derive a visual presentation such as for a table or a graph v Alternative To be used if the attachment is an alternative representation of content for example audio vi Supplement To be used if the attachment represents a supplemental representation of the original source or data that may be more easily consumable eg A MathML version of an equation PDF Compressor can auto detect the type of the attachment file for many common formats like image files office files etc Alternatively you can explicitly specify the MIME type for the attachment Please ensure to use the correct syntax type subtype Setting up Job Entries 50 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Configuring Header and Footer The Header Options and Footer Options buttons let you configure additional text that is added to each output PDF page This can be used to add labels e g Draft page numbers d
10. PDF document The color images will be analyzed and depending on their size and resolution be replaced by an MRC compressed version JPEG 2000 if Reader 6 0 or 7 0 or PDF A 2 or PDF A 3 compatibility has been chosen The compression options described above apply here too 4 Mask Codec You can choose between JB G2 and Fax G4 compression for the text mask Fax G4 uses lossless image compression whereas JBIG2 can be used for lossless and lossy compression further JBIG2 options can be set within the Advanced Compression Options dialog see Configuring Advanced Compression Options below In lossless mode JBIG2 has a better compression performance than to Fax G4 resulting in smaller file sizes with the same visual quality Configuring Advanced Compression Options Use the Advanced Compression Options button on the Compression tab to access the advanced compression options dialog www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 55 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Advanced Compression Options Text Sensitivity 60 low p Note The text sensitivity is reset to its default value whenever you change the document class Foreground J Text Color Resolution Note For Apple Preview compatibility use high quality JBI Options High compression efficiency Lossy encoding O Fast encoding Lossless encoding Image Encoder Options Page Segmentation Options Use layout analysis to detect images on a pag
11. log is created This ensures that at least the given number of bytes is always present as the logging history 4 The Show button starts the Windows Notepad application to show the content of the current log file Log File Analysis Each line within the log file represents one message It consists of the following fields Date and time of message An optional core number followed by a colon Type of message Error Warning Info InfoEx extended information If the message is related to a job entry Name of the entry as shown in the job list oa a 2 S Clear text message error description warning reason information Often related files are given with their full path in quotation marks Some errors are directly shown by a popup box when the GUI is opened PDF Compressor Error lo amp Eror s occured during job processing Last emor Tue Mar 04 14 45 07 2014 Eror Inaccessible input access C Temp Inaccessible File tif Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden Flease check the log file for more infomation Show Logfile Stop AlJobs If such a number is present the message was issued by the PDF Compressor Enterprise responsible to handle processing assigned to the given core number Otherwise the message was issued by the PDF Compressor Windows service www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 76 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Online check for
12. or the file within the destination directory will be overwritten Delete empty folders This option is only available if you select Move input file and Include subfolders for the input processing compare Configuring Input Data p 15 It will clean up the directory sub tree of the moved input files once a job has been finished or a hot folder becomes idle PDF Compressor always creates required folders in advance i e before any file is processed that needs to be moved into that folder on success If errors occur such a folder may remain empty Delete empty folders serves to remove unneeded folders resulting in a more compact file structure 3 For failed input files there are two options a Keep input file The file is just left at its location no action on input file b Move input file to a folder Use the browse button EF to select the destination directory where all failed input files should go to If the input directory is scanned recursively a corresponding directory sub tree will be generated to hold the moved input files Files used as input for embedding as file bookmarks metadata or hidden text are also moved in case the option General input directory and a name modifier F are used See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for the use of network shares The text edit window for the move folder accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop a folder from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech
13. template F Part C Pages 02P O02L will output the files MyFile Part 1 Pages 01 04 pdf MyFile Part 2 Pages 05 08 pdf MyFile Part 3 Pages 09 10 pdf Conditional Substitution The following syntax can be used to make a template string substitution dependent from a condition Condition Syntax Substitution lt condition gt lt string1 gt lt string2 gt lt string1 gt if lt condition gt is true lt string2 gt otherwise Currently the following conditions are defined lt condition gt Description C True if the number of output chunks is greater than 1 or unknown False otherwise V True if the value of the last detected barcode V is not empty a barcode was detected Examples A Output chunks The template F C Part C Pages 02P 02L www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 62 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual outputs the 10 pages document MyFile tif with a chunk size of 5 pages to MyFile Part 1 Pages 01 05 pdf MyFile Part 2 Pages 06 10 pdf and the 5 pages document MyShortFile tif with the same chunk size to MyShortFile Pages 01 05 pdf B Barcode renaming The template V PYV F names the output file according to the value of the barcode found in the document V If barcode detection fails for a document however the output is named like the input file F as a fallback C Barcode spli
14. 04 POF_Cormpsre f Internet Explorer Gi Information 74 06 2015 16 48 24 POF_CompSrv Key Management Service LuraTech 4 PDF Compressor Enterpr gt PDF_CompServer a PDF_CompSrv g Error E License Info Media Center Last Update 2015 06 1570 14 37 000Z A Microsoft Pages 4797 5000 Windows PowerShell Unlimited Pages false Es Subscriptions Compression true OCR true Born Digital true Each license status event contains the following details name Te Deewinion ooo LicenseIndex Lat The index of the license This corresponds to the index shown in the Options dialog LastUpdateTime DateTime The time when the page contingent was last changed by importing a license e g installing a new cartridge LastUpdatePages UnsignediInt The value of the page counter at the LastUpdateTime CurrentPages UnsignedInt The current value of the page counter in other words the remaining pages of this license HasUnlimitedPages Boolean True if the license has unlimited pages False otherwise HasCompression Boolean True if the license contains the compression feature True if the license contains the OCR feature HasBornDigital Boolean True if the license contains the Born Digital feature Managing the PDF Compressor Service The PDF Compressor Service can be directly administrated from the Options dialog of the PDF Compressor GUI Alternatively the Windows service administration tools can be
15. Office applications can save as PDF the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add In must be installed for Office 2007 prior SP2 e For conversion of ODF documents Open Document Format the appropriate components of OpenOffice org 3 2 must be installed 2 The service LuraTech PDF Compressor Enterprise must run under a dedicated user account e Use the Windows service manager services msc to change the logon settings in the service properties e The account can be local or a regular domain user account e The account must have sufficient permissions to access the actual files to convert and to access the office applications via D COM interface 3 Manual preparation before first automatic conversion www luratech com info luratech com Installation 5 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual e Log in with the dedicated user account set up for the service and start each of the Office applications used for conversion e Verify that all required input file types can be opened properly in Microsoft Office and or OpenOffice org This procedure is required to complete the Office installation and to ensure its completeness e For Microsoft Office test the Save as PDF feature e Ensure that all startup dialogs requiring user input are deactivated Network Requirements Luratech PDF Compressor can run as a Stand alone application without any network but typically it will access net shares by reading and or writing files Th
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17. an empty list Before you can do anything you need to add an entry to this list This can be done by creating a new entry or by simply dragging amp dropping files or folders onto the list window compare Managing the Job List p 65 An entry has many properties One of them is the input file or folder you want to process others include all the parameters that can be configured for the file conversion Since you have a list with a virtually unlimited number of entries you can setup different types of file conversions each with its own independent set of parameters fore LuraTech PDF Compressor f z File Entry View Help EREWitsGOOe s wy Properties of Invoice Name Status Priority Timer 9 Invoices a stopped 5 Plans i stopped 5 9 ZUGFeRD a stopped 5 Name Invoices C Lura Ter C Lura Tec E Include subfolders Delete empty folders File Directory C Lura Tech FDF Compressor Invoices Input E Check every 30 seconds Input file formats Raster Images TIFF JPEG JPEG 2000 BMP PNM PDFIPM E PDF A Merge all pages of a folder to a single PDF document F Use lock files for POF Compressor synchronization Core Progress 1 2 www luratech com info luratech com Rastenize PDF Input Automatic E JPM Born Digital E MS Word E MS Excel E MS PowerPoint nam om Advanced Input Options Concept of PDF Compressor 7 PDF Compresor Enterprise
18. and the PDF format support the concept of attachments These attachments are files of arbitrary formats embedded in the overall file which acts as a container E Mail Conversion Options E Mail Attachment Conversion Append attachments as PDF pages for PDF A 1 C Defaut Conversion output additionally embed original formats for PDF A 3 otherwise embed as PDF or PDF A Ignore Attachments Specific Conversion Embed attachments in their original format supported for all output formats except PDF A 1 or PDF A 2 Embed as PDF attachments not supported for PDF A 1 output Append attachments as POF pages with bookmarks Treat emors during attachment processing as wamings Fitter Attachments by File Type Of Process only matching Process all non matching exe bin tar tgz Fitter Attachments to Convert to POF G Of Convet ony matching Convert all non matching mp3 mp4 mov wmv 1 PDF Compressor offers the following options for converting the attachments of e mail input files a The Default Conversion option chooses the best conversion available for the selected PDF Output Format see Configuring Data Output p 25 When converting to PDF A 1 the e mail attachments of all supported input file types are converted to PDF A 1 and appended as pages to the PDF output document since PDF A 1 does not allow for PDF attachments A bookmark www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 28 PDF Comp
19. and options Moreover TIFF has a large variety of sub formats Currently we support bilevel grayscale or RGB color TIFF images CMYK or CIELab color as well as palletized images are not supported Is the underlying PDF Compressor service running Check the status text within the PDF Compressor job list and or the Options dialog See Managing the PDF Compressor Service p 80 Is your input folder a network share where the underlying PDF Compressor service has no access rights See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for details www luratech com info luratech com Troubleshooting 85 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Processed input files are not moved to the given destination folder Processed input files are not deleted even if you use the delete option The output PDF file seems to be an old version from a former PDF conversion but you are using the overwrite option No log file is written or the existing log file is not appended www luratech com info luratech com Did you use a mapped network drive letter to specify the input location You cannot use mapped network drives Use the syntax host share instead See Configuring Input Data p 15 for details The overwrite option is not set and a file of the same name already exists at the destination Please check the log file see Log File Analysis p 76 The overwrite option is set but a file with the same file name at the dest
20. be renamed according to the Rename input files setting Note Be careful when using this option If you use Check every lt number gt seconds and overwrite existing output you end up converting the same documents over and over Each conversion will decrease the number of remaining pages in your license see Managing Licenses p 77 b Delete input file After the PDF file is generated the input file is deleted Files used as input for embedding as file bookmarks metadata or hidden text are also deleted in case the option General input directory and name modifier F are used Be careful with this option If you note later that the output PDF does not fit your needs e g you need another quality than you have lost your original data c Move input file to a folder Use the browse button to select the destination directory where all successfully processed input files should go to In case the input directory is scanned recursively a corresponding directory sub tree will be generated to hold the moved input files Files used as input for embedding as file bookmarks metadata or hidden text are also moved in case the option General input directory and a name modifier F are used See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for hints concerning the use of network shares For this option you can select the behavior in case the destination directory already contains a file with same name as the input file Either the input file is not moved
21. can be chosen with font faces roman bold italic and bold italic each 6 Printed characters can be filled or outlined with the given color or they can be invisible Invisible text might be used to allow text searching within the output PDF without changing the original document s appearance www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 51 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Click the color button Q to select the font color Embedding Watermarks The Watermark Options button displays a dialog which lets you add an additional image e g a company logo to each of the output pages The position size scaling and transparency can be specified for the image to add Watermark Options Watermark image file C Lura Tech P DF Compressor Invoices Input Watemark tiff Transparency 30 Measurement unit percentage 7 Horizontal position Horizontal border 5 Vertical position Vertical border 5 Madmum width Maximum height Scale imageto 72 dpi OK J Cancel 1 Select the Watermark image file to be added to each output page of the PDF file Use the browse button EF to select the file See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for hints concerning the use of network shares No watermark will be added if no filename is given Supported image file formats are the same as listed on the Input tab 2 Set the Transparency to a value in the range of 0 opaque to 100 invisible 3 Select
22. directory as the input files for compression Alternatively choose Directory and specify a different source directory c Under File name template you can specify a template to derive the name of each read XML OCR result file from the name of the corresponding input file for compression See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for more information on template syntax Configuring File Embedding The File Embedding group of the Embedding tab lets you configure options for adding files as attachments to your PDF output files Note This feature is not available for PDF A 1 and PDF A 2 output If you want to create PDF A documents and attach files the PDF Output Format has to be set to PDF A 3 see Configuring Data Output p 25 Note If input post processing configured for the job see Configuring Post Processing p 37 results in moving or deleting input files after processing is applied to files to embed only if they are single files located next to the main input files General input directory and have non static file names escape sequences in their file name templates 1 Select Embed input file to embed the original source file s into your output PDFs 2 Clicking on File Embedding Options brings up the following dialog with more configuration settings File Embedding Options Embed other file s Location base directory General input directory Other directory Input File Directory Name templat
23. distance The distances can by specified in cm or inch 3 The detection of barcodes can be restricted to barcode values that match a given regular expression Enable Restrict to values that match the regular expression and enter the corresponding expression into the given field For a definition of regular expressions see the lt regexp gt part of the syntax defined under Regular Expression Substitution p 63 Example f you only want to detect barcodes that begin with the digit 4 followed by any number of digits use the regular expression 4 0 9 4 Enable Exclude pages with detected barcode to not output pages that contain a barcode that is recognized with respect to the restrictions given above This is typically used when multiple input documents are separated by a plain page with barcode for reference 5 Enable Add bookmark for each barcode to add a bookmark pointing to the page of the barcode for each barcode that matches the restrictions given above If page exclusion is activated the bookmark will point to the next page The bookmark value is used as the title 6 The option Treat every barcode value as a new value changes the behavior with respect to recurring barcode values The default behavior is to ignore barcode occurrences if their value equals the value of the directly preceding barcode When Treat every barcode value as a new value is selected every barcode instance is treated as if its value were found for the first time
24. documents with OpenOffice is chosen all office input files are converted using OpenOffice Obviously an OpenOffice installation must be present in this www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 23 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual case This option is switched off by default and each input document is processed using its native application 3 The option Remove tagging information ensures that structure information generated by office applications during PDF export is disposed Structure information is important for accessible documents and should generally be kept However if file size is critical this option can help to create smaller PDF output Blank Page Detection Options On the Blank Page Detection tab you can configure options for the Blank Page Detection of input files Pages that are detected as blank are always exempt from text recognition OCR Advanced Input Options Detection applies to images and rastenzed PDF 2 Aa E es input only Blank pages are excluded from OCR Eecluded margins Top 0 0 0 0 Bottom Tile size 142 1 pt 1 72 inch Block size 1 Threshold 9 E Exclude blank pages from output 1 The option Detect blank pages serves to enable or disable blank page detection 2 In the Excluded margins box you can choose how much of the margins of all pages should not be part of the blank page detection This way it is possible to exclude invariable page headers or foot
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28. pages of a folder to a E single PDF document TIFF Use lock files for POF al ee JPEG 2000 Compressor synchronization BMP PNM PDF JPM POF Rastenize PDF Input F JPM Automatic Born Digital MS Word i Always E E MS Excel MS PowerPoint I 1 E am m o Factory Defaults e Default Properties has no name that can be edited e The Start and Stop buttons are missing there is no related job to run Instead you can reset all parameters to the factory default values Template String Syntax Description Template strings are used for PDF metadata see PDF Metadata p 33 headers and footers see Configuring Header and Footer p 51 input file renaming see Configuring Post Processing p 37 output file naming see Configuring Data Output p 25 thumbnail file naming see Thumbnails p 33 data embedding Configuring Data Embedding p 46 and file embedding Configuring File Embedding p 49 Restrictions PDF Metadata Must not contain Q or its versions with modifiers Header and Footer Must not contain L N C V or its versions with modifiers Input file renaming Must contain F or its version with modifiers or regular expression substitution for F Must not contain P Q L N C V or its versions with www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 59 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual modifiers Must not contain any characters disallowed for file names XMP metadata
29. priority as of a screen saver You should therefore turn off any screen saver when PDF Compressor priority is set to Low so as not to waste your processing power Taskbar Status Icon When you log in a PDF Compressor icon a will be shown in the Windows taskbar Its color reflects the status of the PDF Compressor and it can be used to open the GUI double click or context menu If you want the icon to disappear please disable the check box Show status in taskbar of the Options dialog Born Digital Options If the Born Digital Module is installed the Options dialog contains an extra tab for administering options specific to the PDF A conversion www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 82 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Bom Digital Options Detect blocked conversion processes and tigger a conversion service restart Max conversion time 600 seconds Daily restart of conversion service 24 hour format Madmum number of parallel conversions 2 Licensed The born digital conversion service utilizes third party applications e g Microsoft Office during the conversion process It can happen that these applications become unavailable or get stuck so that the conversion process cannot finish To avoid such situations to block the whole conversion service there are some options for automatic clean restarting Note In order to enable PDF Compressor to successfully restart the conversi
30. text color and background image layer when page segmentation is applied a JPEG 2000 selects the new JPEG 2000 compression b JPEG selects the old DCT based JPEG compression c Automatic determines the selection of JPEG 2000 or JPEG compression based on the size in pixels of the encoded image Using Adobe Reader the display of document pages with large JPEG 2000 images can become very slow or even faulty depending on the user interaction such as zooming or panning To overcome this problem the Automatic mode uses JPEG instead of JPEG 2000 compression whenever the width or height of an image is greater than 5120 pixels Note This option is not available for Reader 5 or PDF A 1 compatibility These compatibility modes must use JPEG compression by definition Note This option is not available for Reader 6 Reader 7 PDF A 2 or PDF A 3 compatibility when the Document Class is set to Photo with Quality 11 lossless This special setting features a lossless compression for the page image Since lossless compression is not possible with JPEG this mode always uses lossless JPEG 2000 compression 5 Page Segmentation Options let you configure advanced options for the LuraTech page segmentation These options are only available when a page segmentation is actually part of the processing i e for document classes WRC Standard or MRC Check Enable Use layout analysis to detect images on a page to improve the visual quality of a
31. this function splits the output into multiple documents whenever a new barcode is detected on a page The next document begins with the first page that contains a new barcode This mode is typically used with Output File Renaming using a template string with V escape sequence representing the value of the detected barcode see item 6 below Both Output Splitting modes imply the Output File Renaming to be turned on 6 Output File Renaming can be used to customize the naming of PDF output files The file name template is used to form the output file names It uses escape sequences as specified in Template String Syntax Description p 59 If Output Splitting is enabled you need to enter www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 27 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual escape sequences to distinguish the output names of the different chunks A typical example for page number based splitting is sF_SP SL were SF is substituted by the input file name P by the first page number within the chunk and L by the last page number See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for details and more examples or press the help button Ww next to the entry Configuring E Mail Conversion Options Clicking the E Mail Conversion Options button brings up a dialog with further options regarding the conversion of attachments to e mail messages Note It is essential to understand that both e mail message formats such as MSG and EML
32. to the list window All text fields that represent file or folder names accept the dragging amp dropping of files or folders There are more valid shortcuts for header and footer text than shown in the GUI Please refer to Template String Syntax Description p 59 for more details Header and Footer are just titles of the corresponding tabs of the Properties dialog You can configure them e g to set left and right bounded text in the header or to set big sized outlined text at the center of a page To make different types of output e g high quality high resolution and low resolution or bitonal versions from the same input file you can configure several job list entries in a cascade Use Entry A to make Version A at Destination A move processed input to the input folder of Entry B Use Entry B to make Version B at Destination B move processed input to the input folder of Entry C Use Entry C to make Version C at Destination C move processed input to the final destination folder which could be the input of Entry A You can duplicate job list entries see Adding Deleting and Copying Entries p 65 This lets you quickly set up two entries that only differ in a few parameters e g encoder quality and can be useful for comparison purposes www luratech com info luratech com Tips and Tricks 84 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 11 Troubleshooting Possible Reason Solution The output PDF has a You a
33. will only find istO001 rdy if all files has been successfully processed Job List File Priorities After a list has been loaded all its entries are automatically started As soon as an entry has finished and is shown as stopped it is removed from the list The next job list is loaded when at least one processor core becomes idle and there are no jobs left waiting to get processed so jobs of different lists can be processed in parallel This ensures that all available processor cores run at full capacity as far as possible To enforce pure sequential processing of job lists and the contained jobs the processing order can be set to List Processing Order mode compare Job List Processing p 14 If this option is chosen the next job list file is not loaded until processing all jobs from the previous file has been completed In job list processing mode priorities cannot be assigned to individual job entries within a job list file but only to the job list file as a whole using file extensions To this end file extensions go1 highest priority through go10 lowest can be used for the job list files Among files of the same priority the oldest ones are processed first Any file with a plain go extension is given a priority between go5 and go6 The option Complete all jobs of highest priority before starting further jobs does not affect job list processing Job List File Syntax Job list files dat are plain text fil
34. DF Compressor when it attempts to write an output file that is already present at the respective location Either the output file will not be written and you will find an error message in the log file see Section Log Files p 75 or the existing file will be overwritten 3 Select Delete empty folders if you want to clean up the output directory sub tree This option is only available if you select Include subfolders for the input processing see Configuring Input Data p 15 PDF Compressor always creates required output folders in advance i e before any file is processed whose output has to be placed in that folder On error conditions certain output files may be deleted resulting in empty folders Delete empty folders helps to remove unneeded folders after a job has been finished or after a hot folder has become idle 4 The option PDF Output Format lets you choose the exact version of PDF to create LuraTech PDF Compressor can create PDF documents conforming with different versions of the PDF standard or different so called conformance levels of PDF A These formats and their differences are briefly explained here The general recommended default is PDF A 2u a Adobe Reader 5 0 PDF 1 4 The decomposition of images into different layers and masks is supported in a usable way since Adobe Reader 5 0 PDF 1 4 PDF documents produced by PDF Compressor require a viewer to support at least PDF 1 4 to be displayed properly b
35. EG images directly to embed into PDF pages This involves the risk of creating corrupt PDF output by incorporating corrupt JPEG input images 8 With the Use orientation stored in TIFF input files option the orientation information optionally contained in TIFF input files determines the orientation of the corresponding pages in the PDF output document PDF Input Options The PDF Input tab of the Advanced Input Options dialog lets you configure options that are relevant for opening PDF input files www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 20 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Advanced Input Options Document Open Password Change Pennissions Password POF Input Rasterzation E interpolate images Default POF Page Size Will onb be used if a PDF input file a contains no page size information Altemative rasterization method consuming less memory estict POF Conversion E Use only PDF Optimization for converting PDF input files 1 The Document Open Password is used to open password protected PDF files The given password is stored within PDF Compressor in an encrypted way Note that this encryption does not meet the highest security demands The given password is ignored when the input PDF file is not password protected 2 In addition to a password needed to open the PDF document it can be protected by a Change Permissions Password This password is used whenever the PDF access permis
36. K contained in the APPLICATION on condition that the End User complies with the terms and conditions of the EULA which apply to the ABBYY SDK or to the APPLICATION as a whole The Runtime License may be time performance or function limited and protected from unauthorized copying by means of a hardware or software protection key which is an integral part of the ABBYY SDK The End User may not perform or make it possible for other persons to perform any activities included in the list below Disassemble or decompile i e extract the source code from the object code the ABBYY SDK applications databases and other ABBYY SDK components except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation Modify the ABBYY SDK including making changes to the object code of the applications and databases contained in the ABBYY SDK other than those provided for by the ABBYY SDK and described in the documentation Transfer any rights granted to the End User hereby and other rights related to the ABBYY SDK to any other person not authorized to use the ABBYY SDK Make it possible for any person not entitled to use the ABBYY SDK and working in the same multi user system as the End User to use the ABBYY SDK ABBYY SDK is supplied as is ABBYY does not guarantee that the ABBYY SDK will carry no errors nor will it be liable for any damages either direct or indirect including without limita
37. TS 17 1981 Detect pictures E OCR B ISO 1073 2 ore E MICR E138 1 Equalize brightness F MICR CMC7 Table Recognition Options E Disable table recognition Single line per cell Split only by separators E Throw eror if no text is found E Treat OCR errors as wamings E Do not output PDF files Embed fonts for OCR results Suppress OCR for pages largerthan 594 x 847 mm E Put additional OCR output files in separate directory OCR Eror Handling Move input file on OCR failure 1 Unless you have special requirements for the detection of specific typographical fonts the OCR recognized text type list should only contain a selection for the text type Normal This refers to a common typographic type of text Note Whenever you select more than one entry at once the OCR process can slow down since it triggers an automatic text type detection among the selected text types In some cases the OCR might even be run several times for the given text types Note Whenever you select something different from Normal ordinary text might not be detected with an appropriate accuracy If your documents exclusively use a special typographic font given in the list you should select this and only this font from the list to obtain better OCR results If your documents contain a mixture of normal and special typographical fonts you might want to select multiple fonts from the list OCR will be running slower
38. V Embed XMLOCRresutts Z Embed fonts for OCR results OCR resul file location General input directory Directory File name template 9 tF ocrxml Cancel 1 Select Embed XML OCR results to insert OCR results in ABBYY XML format into your output PDF files If such OCR results for your documents already exist this is an alternative way to embed them as hidden text without submitting the files to OCR again The XML encoding must be utf 8 and the XML schema location for the ABBYY XML format is http www abbyy com FineReader xml FineReader6 schema v1 xml Note OCR results written to separate XML files by the PDF Compressor can only be embedded later if they were created either with the full or simplified option Note If PDF input files already contain hidden text and are processed in PDF optimization mode Embed XML OCR results will not remove or replace this text Instead PDF Compressor will add an additional layer for further hidden text it embeds a Some regulations for PDF documents require all fonts to embedded even those used only for hidden text PDF and PDF A do not require this and the default behavior of www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 48 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual PDF Compressor is not to embed these fonts To comply with the more restrictive rules select Embed fonts for OCR results b Select General input directory to read XML OCR result files from the same
39. al default can be overwritten by a file specific default Every job list entry containing the property listdefault with a value of 1 overwrites the default with its own property values 2 If a corresponding lt property_name gt is found use the specified value instead of the default www luratech com info luratech com Automatic Job List Processing 70 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual The following list contains the most important keywords used to create custom job list files Path of the input directory or file see also i sDir LSD integer 0 pathIn is a file 1 path In is a directory recurse integer 0 do not scan input directories recursively 1 scan input directories recursively outNext integer place output files in the directory specified by pathOut 1 place output files next to input files pathMove string Path where to move input files after successful processing see also modeIn modeIn integer 0 do not move input files 1 delete input files 2 move input files to the directory specified in pathMove pathErr string Path where to move input files after an error occurred a during processing see also moveOnErr moveOnkrr integer 0 do not move input files on error 1 move input files on error to the directory specified in pathErr PDF metadata title PDF metadata keywords New property names and or more possible values of existing names will be added in future releases of PDF Compr
40. amples in the PDF Compressor s installation folder ta PDF Compressor API Demo LuraTech Job Configuration Template Use Default Job 6 Load From File input File Directory Output Next To Input File Output In Directory E Overwrite Existing Files Output Format POF A 2u Miscellaneous E Asynchronous Job Processing www luratech com info luratech com Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API 74 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 9 Administration and Licensing Administration and license management can be performed via the File gt Options menu The Options dialog has several tabs which are described in the following sub sections PDF Compressor Service Logfile Updates Check for updates automatically once a month Job List Processing Folder Cura Tech PDOF CompressorJoblist Check every 10 seconds E Write additional log messages to job list control files Prionty Processing Complete all jobs of highest prorty before starting further jobs General Configuration Settings Log Files The section Logfile of the Options dialog lets you configure PDF Compressor s logging system 1 You can specify path and file name of the log file Use the browse button EF to select the log file 2 The type of logged information can be selected by the corresponding drop down box a Log all and extended info works like Log errors warnings and info but also includes extended i
41. ar 3 User Interface Options can be used to hide various elements of the Adobe Reader window You can hide the menu bar the tool bars and the window controls PDF Metadata The data entered in the fields of PDF Metadata will be embedded in the output PDF document You can find that information within Adobe Reader under the menu File gt Document Properties gt Description It is possible to put certain escape sequences into the PDF Metadata fields that will be substituted by information such as file name number of pages date time etc The help button Ww displays a list of all possible substitutions See also Template String Syntax Description p 59 Advanced Output Options PDF Security PDF Initial View Standard POF metadata values specified here will be inserted in all POF output files generated by this job Title Invoice Author Alice Muller Subject Scanned Invoice Thumbnails The Thumbnails tab is used to enable and configure the output of additional thumbnail images containing page views of the input documents Thumbnails are output as JPEG files next to the PDF output file www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 33 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Advanced Output Options PDF Securty PDF Initial View PDF Metadata MRC compression mode only Create thumbnail image files JPEG format Maamum size 150 x 150 Quality 90 Name template WFEW03P First page on
42. as been started and is within the group of same priority workin j jobs that are about to be processed in an interleaved order The job is a hot folder that is idle and waiting for new files to monitoring appear e The job has been started and is waiting for other higher priority started o a ii jobs to finish before it becomes working itself A signal has been sent from the GUI to the PDF Compressor stopping service to stop the job The status will soon change to stopped Importing and Exporting Job settings The settings of all entries within a job list can be exported to a file or restored from a file by use of the menus File gt Export job list File gt Import job list File gt Append job list imports a job list by appending its entries to the current list This can be used for backup purposes Append job list can be used to merge multiple job lists into a single list Settings of a single job can be exported by right clicking on the job entry and selecting Export Job from the context menu If Priority Processing Order is turned off the job is waiting for other jobs within the given list order to finish before it becomes working itself Compare Priority Processing Order p 13 www luratech com info luratech com Managing the Job List 67 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 7 Automatic Job List Processing Luratech PDF Compressor can automatically load and process predefined job lists Job lis
43. ate and time of the conversion and other information The given text can be customized concerning font font face color size and position The Header Options and Footer Options dialogs are identical except for their titles Therefore we only describe the Header dialog here Header Options Odd pages Converted at d um 4Y ZH ZM Even pages Conberted fram F Shortcuts ZH Hour zd Day FF Filename ZM Minute 4m Month zP Page 25 Second XY Year a 2 Even pages same as odd pages Horiz position odd center Vertical position top Font size pt 12 Fort Times Roman fied O a For odd and even pages different text and horizontal position can be specified If the corresponding text field is empty no such text will be added Enable Even pages same as odd pages if you want the same text to be added to each page 1 Enter your text at Odd pages and or Even pages The entered string may contain escape sequences that are replaced by corresponding substitute text once the header or footer is printed onto the page See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for a list of possible escape sequences The help button WwW will display such a list within the PDF Compressor application The horizontal position can be set to right center or left The vertical position can be set to top middle or bottom The font size can be set to any positive number AEE E The three fonts Times Helvetica and Courier
44. atech com Setting up Job Entries 29 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual If Convert only matching is selected only e mail attachments with the specified file extensions will be converted to PDF A all others will be ignored If Convert all non matching is chosen e mail attachments with the specified file extensions will be ignored and all others will be converted to PDF A Configuring Advanced Output Options Clicking the Advanced Output Options button brings up a dialog with further settings concerning output generation PDF Security The PDF Security tab lets you configure the security features of the output PDF documents Currently only security compatibility for Adobe Reader 3 0 and higher and Adobe Reader 5 0 and higher is supported Please also note that PDF Security is disallowed for PDF A compatibility Advanced Output Options PDF Securty No security Copy secunty settings from PDF input file Use the following securty settings Compatibility Level 128 bit RC4 Require this password to open the document Require this password to change penissions Poning alowed Change alowed Enable text access for screen reader devices for the visually impaired 1 You can either specify to not use any security on output PDF documents No security copy the settings from the input files Copy security settings or use the settings given by this dialog Use the following security settin
45. ced Blank Page Detection Read ony upto 1 pages from each input file Case insensitive sorting of input files and folders Read local copy of each input file Defaut Resolution i Used for input files with no resolution Optimized m F infomation and for PDF input m dpi for PDF Maximal dpi 300 Directly create POF pages from JPEG images without recoding Skip JPEG validation when adding images without recoding E Use orientation stored in TIFF input files Advanced Input Options 1 Enable Read only up to lt number gt pages from input file to restrict the number of pages read from each input file to the given limit When you merge all files from an input directory see Configuring Input Data p 15 to a single PDF output file setting the maximum number of input pages to 1 can be used to create documents that only contain the cover pages of these files 2 Select Case insensitive sorting of files and folders if you want the input file processing to be in case insensitive alphanumeric order Otherwise the ordering will be case sensitive with capital letters lexically smaller than lower case letters and therefore Ac coming before ab 3 Enable Read local copy of each input file to solve problems related to the location of input files in the network The files will be temporarily copied to the local Temp folder where they will be opened and read Especially useful when the performance for transmitting small parts of data in the
46. com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 38 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual For this option you can select the behavior when the destination directory already contains a file with same name as the input file Either the input file is not moved or the file within the destination directory will be overwritten Delete empty folders This option is only available if you select Move input file and Include subfolders for the input processing compare Configuring Input Data p 15 and Configuring Post Processing p 37 It will clean up the directory sub tree of the moved input files once a job has been finished or a hot folder becomes idle PDF Compressor always creates required folders in advance i e before any file is processed that needs to be moved into that folder on error If no error occurs such a folder may remain empty Delete empty folders serves to remove unneeded folders making it easier to locate files in the error folder Configuring OCR and Barcode Recognition The OCR tab contains options for configuring the optional OCR i e text recognition from raster input documents and barcode recognition Properties of Invoices Name Invoices Detect Barcodes Barcode Options OCR Mode Apply OCR O Most accurate Balanced Fast Additional output formats E Plain Text E csv E Rich Text Format RTF E HTML E MS Excel E MS PowerPoint E ALTO E XML Full Deskew AML coordinat
47. converted Otherwise only files directly within the given folder will be processed b Enable Delete empty folders if you have selected Include subfolders and want to clean up the input sub tree This can be useful if you configure a setup that moves or deletes all processed input files see also Configuring Post Processing p 37 Once all files of the given job have been processed the output folder will be examined and gt Whenever you use the browse button type in the path manually or change it by drag amp drop PDF Compressor automatically checks if the path represents a file or directory Note that this checking might take some time if the element is located on a net share The text edit window for the input path accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop a file or folder from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 16 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual www luratech com info luratech com all empty subfolders will be deleted If the input folder is a hot folder see next item the cleanup process will be performed whenever the hot folder becomes idle i e when no more files are found to be processed at the moment Enable Check every lt number gt seconds to make the given folder a hot folder i e to let the job check that folder frequently for newly generated files e g by an external scanner or capture software A job that has this options enable
48. d or by e mail exchange if your host is not connected to the internet or a firewall prohibits an online activation The OCR activation is bound to a single host You do not need to activate OCR immediately The Activate OCR button will be enabled as long as an activation is needed Depending on the purchased license Born Digital Conversion can be enabled or disabled The current status is shown in the License section of the Options dialog The Number of licensed processor cores is shown in the License section of the Options dialog You can configure the actually used number of processor cores up to the licensed maximum in the PDF Compressor Service section of the Options dialog Caveats Your license is bound to a single installation If you plan to port your installation to another computer to recover your installation from a backup after system crash or to reinstall Windows please contact support luratech com to get advice before the de installation of PDF Compressor or reinstallation of your operating system Under rare circumstances e g after a system crash it might be possible that your license becomes invalid If this happens please send a license request file to license luratech com We will reply with a special repair license Updating Licenses If you replace the PDF Compressor application by a newer version an existing page based license will remain valid However depending on the updated version of the PDF Compresso
49. d Use the following security settings is chosen the access permissions can be specified by the following options 5 Printing Allowed can be set to None Low resolution with Reader 5 0 security compatibility and Full resolution 6 Changes Allowed can be set to various restrictions depending on the PDF security compatibility Please refer to the PDF Reference document available from Adobe for details 7 Enable copying of text images and other content allows these operations on the protected PDF documents If the security compatibility is Reader 3 0 this includes the access for the visually impaired 8 With Reader 5 0 security compatibility the text access for screen reader devices for the visually impaired can be selected independently from the access given in 7 PDF Initial View The PDF Initial View tab lets you configure the initial view of a PDF document when it is opened with the Adobe Reader In addition the appearance of the Adobe Reader itself can be influenced www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 31 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Advanced Output Options Navigation tab Page layout Meaanification Open to page Window Options E Resize window to initial page Show E Center window on screen E Open in full screen mode User Interface Options E Hide menu bar E Hide window controls E Hide toolbars 1 Layout and Magnification sets th
50. d processing the corresponding job is halted 2 Filter Attachments by File Type If settings chosen under E Mail Attachment Conversion Options require the conversion of an e mail attachment to PDF A the PDF Compressor will try to convert attachments of all supported input file types Embedding e mail attachments as PDF attachments in their respective original format works for any file type The Filter Attachments by File Type option serves to discriminate among e mail attachment types by specifying a list of file extensions If Off is chosen here PDF Compressor will process attachments as described in the previous paragraph If Process only matching is selected only e mail attachments with the specified file extensions will be processed all others will be ignored If Process all non matching is chosen e mail attachments with the specified file extensions will be ignored and all others will be processed The file extensions must be separated by spaces either with or without leading dot i e both mpeg mpg jpeg jpg and mpeg mpg jpeg jog are valid 3 Filter Attachments to Convert to PDF This set of options further restricts the set of e mail attachment types specified by the Filter Attachments by File Type options regarding the types of files to convert to PDF A If Off is chosen here PDF Compressor will convert attachments of supported input file types which have passed the previous filter www luratech com info lur
51. d will never stop automatically since it keeps on monitoring the given folder You have to stop it manually This option only makes sense if you delete successfully converted input files or move them into another folder See also Configuring Post Processing p 37 Enable Merge all pages if all pages from all processed files of a folder should be converted to a single PDF output document The output file will be named lt name_of_the_input_folder gt pdf The input files of a folder will be processed in alphabetical case sensitive order This defines the page order of the output PDF This option can be used to merge pages from scanners that put numbered single page files such as page000 tif page001 tif etc into a single folder Input file formats can be selected from the given list The format is derived from the file s extension TIFF enables the conversion of tif and tiff files Currently PDF Compressor supports bilevel grayscale and RGB images CMYK and CIELab color as well as palletized images are not supported yet JPEG enables the conversion of jpg files JP2 enables the conversion of JPEG 2000 files The extensions jp2 jpf jpx j2k jpc and j2c are recognized PDF enables the conversion of PDF files If Always is chosen under Rasterize PDF Input will be rasterized to the resolution specified on the Advanced tab of the Advanced Input Options dialog see Advanced Input Options p 19 before ap
52. e Activate onhy when using OCR Note Layout analysis improves the page quality Detected images are excluded from segmentation and stored in a single layer The image quality can be controlled by selecting a resolution level 1 The Text sensitivity parameter controls how much of the text will be put into the text mask A higher value for the text sensitivity may make the text appear bolder whereas a lower value may make it appear thinner Normally values in the range 60 to 70 achieve best results However if the input images has low contrast an adjustment of the text sensitivity from its default value may give better results Note Whenever you change the document class in the Encoder tab the text sensitivity is reset to its default value which depends on the document class 2 The foreground text color resolution affects the visual quality of colored text or lines and the compatibility with some too simple PDF Viewer applications Some PDF Viewer applications don t render pages in full quality in case the resolution of the foreground image is lower than the foreground mask standard The following options are available a Use standard foreground sub sampling for minimal file size b increase quality will improve the visual quality of colored text and lines The foreground sub sampling is decreased at the cost of increased file size www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 56 PDF Compresor Enterprise
53. e Finfo xml _ Relationship to the document Data Auto detect type MIMEtype application octet stream Cancel www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 49 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 3 Select Embed other file s to embed any other file as attachment into your output PDFs d www luratech com info luratech com Select General input directory to read the attachment files from the same directory as the input files for compression Alternatively choose Directory and specify a different source directory Under Input select File to embed a single specific file per input file ZUGFeROtherwise select Directory to let PDF Compressor embed all files contained in one specific directory per input file The file or directory name must be configured in the Name template The Name template lets you specify a template to derive the name of each attachment input file or directory from the name of the corresponding input file for compression See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for more information on template syntax The ZUGFeRD XML option refers to a German national standard for embedding XML invoice data as attachments into PDF A 3 files If this option is selected PDF Compressor automatically checks and complies with the constraints required by the ZUGFeRD standard Select the Relationship to the document from the drop down list The following values are available i
54. e ome OOOO we The complete matched string Matched sub string 1 FF endsoonumt Matched sub string 9 Example The template F _From_ 0 9 _To_ 0 9 1 _ P_To_ L outputs the 10 pages document MyFile_From_1_ To_10 tif with a chunk size of 5 pages to MyFile_ 1_To_5 pdf MyFile_ 6 To_10 pdf www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 64 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 6 Managing the Job List This section describes in detail all operations that can be performed on the job list Adding Deleting and Copying Entries New entries can be added by any of the following actions e Using the context menu within an area of the list that is outside any existing entry i LuraTech PDF Compressor File Entry View Help Name Status Priority Timer Input Output PO invoices nll Stopped a E LUA Tech PDF Compressor C Lura Tech PDF Compresso _ min 2 Plane fa stopped 5 C uraTech PDF Compressor C LuraTech PDF Compresso PD 3 ZUGFeRD T stopped 5 20s CALuraTech POF Compressor Cs LuraTech PDF Compresso 7 Clone Job Delete Edit Default Properties Export Job e Use the toolbar s new button fel e Use the menu Entry gt Add New Entry e Drag amp drop files and or folders from the Windows Explorer to the list window When a new entry is created all settings from the Default Properties are copied to the new entry The name is set to Entry lt nu
55. e PDF Compressor for processing This of course requires a PDF Compressor service running in API Mode on the same computer For now the API does not provide for remote access Note also that input and output files are referenced through file system paths For an API job to succeed these paths must be accessible by the PDF Compressor service The API does neither provide for passing the entire content of an input file programmatically to the service nor for receiving the result in a similar fashion File input and output are performed via the file system API jobs can be submitted either synchronously meaning the call will only return when the job has been completed or asynchronously where the function call will return immediately The API client can provide a callback function to receive progress and status information regarding the submitted job This information can also generally be retrieved using the client s reference handle to a submitted job A client can also prompt the server to abort a running job Jobs can be submitted in a multithreaded and asynchronous fashion If all processor cores on the server side are busy the PDF Compressor service will queue the submitted jobs and process them according to priority and submission time The C C API The two native API DLLs reside in the api subfolder of the PDF Compressor s installation folder as PDF_CompApi_32 d ll and PDF_CompApi_64 dll The C header and library fi
56. e appearance of the opened PDF document da Navigation tab lets you select the panel that is opened at the left hand side of the Adobe Reader window It can be bookmarks the pages or the layout panel or no panel at all Page Only Page layout sets the appearance and number of pages that will be shown in the Adobe Reader page window There are settings for individual pages a continuous page flow and various options for two page display Magnification sets the initial magnification of the document It can be either a specific zoom level or an option to fit the page its width or its height into the Adobe Reader window Actual Size is an synonym for a zoom level of 100 The initially opened page of a document can be set by Open to page If the given page is greater than the number of pages of the document the initial opened page will be the last page of the document 2 Window Options influence the appearance of the Adobe Reader window when a document is opened a www luratech com info luratech com The Adobe Reader window can be resized such that the initial page fits to the window The Adobe Reader window can be centered on the screen The Adobe Reader can go into Full Screen mode when a PDF document is opened Setting up Job Entries 32 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual d You can select if the PDF file name or its title is shown in the Adobe Reader title b
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58. e for a given duration without restart And on the other hand a job can be periodically restarted without a fixed duration assuming that it will finish once it has processed all its current input Note that an output PDF document may be divided up into multiple PDF files if output splitting is enabled See Configuring Data Output p 23 www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 14 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Configuring Advanced Job Options The Advanced Job Options dialog lets you configure additional error handling and LuraTech maintenance settings Advanced Job Options Eror Handling Continue job on critical eror Lura Tech Maintenance Do not enter any key unless advised by the LuraTech Support Team Key 1 If the option Continue job on critical error is turned on PDF Compressor will not stop a hot folder when a critical error occurs such as input folder does not exist or output folder cannot be created but to go idle instead and try again later 2 The LuraTech Maintenance entry should not be used unless advised by the LuraTech Support Team The Key must be left blank for normal processing Configuring Input Data The nput tab lets you configure which input documents should be converted to PDF format Currently TIFF JPEG JP2 JPEG 2000 BMP PNM PDF and JPM JPEG 2000 part 6 formats are accepted for input files With the optional Born Digital Module additional input f
59. e lock files for PDF Compressor synchronization This ensures that input files currently processed by one PDF Compressor are not accessed by another PDF Compressor This is implemented by the use of lock files ock and dlock that PDF Compressor uses to lock certain input files or all files of a directory when Merge all pages is enabled Note The PDF Compressor Service must have write access to the input directories when using lock files Important note Files ending with ock and d ock will be overwritten without notice when using lock files You should not use these extensions for your own files Note A file PDF_Compressor ulock can be used as a user defined lock for all files of a directory In contrast to the lock files ock and dlock this file can be managed by the user If Use lock files for PDF Compressor synchronization is enabled PDF Compressor will never process any file it finds within a directory that contains a file PDF_Compressor ulock This can be used to configure a hot folder with Merge all pages enabled The external process creates a new directory underneath the PDF Compressor hot folder containing a file PDF_Compressor ulock and copies all files that need to be merged afterwards When the last file copy is done the external process removes PDF_Compressor ulock Next time PDF Compressor inspects the hot folder the processing of the given files begins 5 The Rasterize PDF Input setting offers different modes fo
60. e system administrator must ensure that the account used to run the LuraTech PDF Compressor s service has the corresponding access rights See Managing the PDF Compressor Service p 80 for more details Service Requirements for OCR The OCR function is implemented by using the ABBYY FineReader Engine SDK To use the OCR function it is necessary that the ABBYY SDK 11 Licensing Service is running The service is set up during installation and should not be disabled www luratech com info luratech com Installation 6 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 3 Concept of PDF Compressor The LuraTech PDF Compressor Enterprise is designed to convert files automatically without any user interaction The LuraTech PDF Compressor after being configured will run in the background You do not need to be logged in on the system any longer Even after a shutdown and reboot of your system PDF Compressor will continue to process its jobs This kind of functionality results from PDF Compressor consisting of two basic components e A graphical user interface GUI that allows you to configure and monitor the system e Anunderlying Windows service which performs the conversion jobs However the GUI can be used as any ordinary Windows based application without even noticing the underlying Windows service Graphical User Interface Job List The job list is the main element of the GUI When you first start the PDF Compressor you will see
61. e two reasons why you might want to change the input s resolution a If the input resolution is too low below 150 dpi the PDF Compressor output might have a quality that is too low for your needs although the file size will be extremely small Changing the resolution e g to 300 dpi will produce better results b If your original scans are high resolution e g more than 600 dpi you might want to produce a lower resolution PDF output The Minimal and Maximal dpi settings address these requirements Whenever the resolution of the input files is outside the given min max range the resolution will be changed by resampling to the minimum value or the maximum value Note Please bear in mind that the Resampling setting only affects grayscale and color images The resolution of bilevel or B W images will not be changed In case of JPEG 2000 input the ability to decode a JPEG 2000 file to a lower resolution will be used This enables fast access to huge JPEG 2000 images when only a lower resolution is needed 6 When Directly create PDF pages from JPEG input without recoding is enabled JPEG input images are not submitted to MRC or JPEG2000 compression but are directly embedded as pages in the PDF output document In this fashion repeated compression of such input documents is avoided On the other hand these pages are not reduced in size 7 Skip JPEG validation when adding images without recoding omits all integrity checks for JP
62. edanstwwsiseataveisostevesasecsnesdes 66 Starting and Stopping JOD ENC CS iscisces esceuscasscctusasncevdebaxccaacisncteveisteeeuciensisielseennciencnssaseeieutsens 66 MOnLONE JOD ae een tte ane nee yt E eee 66 Importing and Exporting Job settings cccccccssseccceeseccceesecceeeeseceeeeececeeseceeseeeeesauesecsenecss 67 7 Automatic Job List Processing csccsccscsscssccscsccccccscsccccccscsccccecscecs 68 Finding and Processing Job LISES sisisc weercceserscecssstancdewexdueieucs sessaweteeeieieboscianevseaiatieasnestwucsnseowerets 68 VOTO NSE TENS PIOC Sc cease coc s psec ec eseie boonies teense easueecee wee soscngectenctesergeceians 69 NOOSE RUNS S NCA cee oiss sa se eee view pec vege nc peso oe cant octane na sae eae wees ssecanes euctaeeeasec neta 69 8 Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API cscsssccscssesccscsceees 72 APODO OOC cence ps ers scp wees cpa a eas se ns nor ae nny eet one raessaiachs socauelc ocatenngecteuerens 73 TeL OTAPI spss reves ens ace pre ec mie nares eo ac oko carte ota vgs gases sac ee ees ones eae eee 73 Ss INE We econ nace vances A parse santos sipeiua yaaa won E 73 PPD PC NON asec veces ne ts case ce eines esr ease psec auc oes ree econ rete ete 74 9 Administration and LICENSING ccscsccccscsceccccscsceccccscsccccccscsceccccscecs 75 www luratech com info luratech com PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual General Contieuration Setting Seseme nn en ne en ene ee nee R 75 Managin
63. embedded even those used only for hidden text PDF and PDF A do not require this and the default behavior of PDF Compressor is not to embed these fonts To comply with the more restrictive rules select Embed fonts for OCR results The OCR can take a long time or even fail on very large pages especially if these pages do not mostly have textual content So it makes sense not to do OCR on such pages Select Suppress OCR for pages larger than option if you have mixed input that includes normal textual pages www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 43 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual as well as very large sheets The maximum dimensions of pages that should be run through the OCR can be given in millimeter or inch 12 Select Put additional OCR output files in separate directory if you want the additional OCR output files not to be placed next to the output PDF files but into its own directory The browse button EF lets you select the directory9 When processing a whole input directory sub tree see Configuring Input Data p 15 a corresponding directory sub tree will be created under the specified OCR output directory Barcode Options The Barcode Options dialog is opened via the Barcode Options buttons of the OCR tab Barcode Options Restrict detection to rectangle defined by two points Point 1 Distance from 0 cm parce C Distance from 6 Distance from 3 Unit cm inch Restrict to values that ma
64. enable Display text layer only when file is opened 3 Write file locally and move to output may be enabled to solve problems when the output file is located in the network Especially useful when the performance for transmitting small parts of data in the network is low 4 You can optionally Copy bookmarks and other metadata from PDF input If configured accordingly under Rasterize PDF Input PDF input files can be rasterized In that case all meta information contained in the PDF input files is lost unless the Copy bookmarks and other metadata option has been selected With this option all bookmarks XMP metadata and data of the PDF information dictionary from the input file are copied to the corresponding PDF output file PDF Metadata set in the Advanced Output Options dialog i e non empty strings will overwrite any value copied from the input files In case of PDF A compliant output only bookmarks that contain PDF A compliant actions are copied e g go to page is allowed whereas execute JavaScript is disallowed Moreover only XMP data from the schemas predefined in the XMP Specification are copied PDF Compressor does not perform any schema validation It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that the input files contain properly formed XMP when this option is used 5 Enabled Suppress corrupt metadata allows the suppression of corrupt metadata Processing of the input document will not be aborted it continues and handles t
65. ept jobs submitted via the API the PDF Compressor Service must be put in API Processing Mode Similar to the Job List Processing mode covered in the previous chapter it is a separate mode in which the PDF Compressor solely accepts jobs issued through the API The API Processing Mode is mutually exclusive with standard processing and Job List Processing mode File Entry View Help BREF t LOGOO Ega O www luratech com info luratech com Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API 72 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual This color serves to remind you that in API Mode most interactive operations on job lists are disabled You cannot add or delete entries nor can you edit any property of an entry It is the PDF Compressor service that loads and processes job entries as submitted by the API clients and unloads them once they have been completed API Job Lifecycle In contrast to the rather persistent job entries of the PDF Compressor s standard mode in API Mode jobs have a more limited lifespan An API client creates an instance of a job configuration either from default settings or by loading a configuration from a dat file compare Job List File Syntax p 69 An API Client can then access and modify all individual settings in this job configuration via set and get functions The entire scope of options of standard and Job List Processing mode is available in API Mode as well Once properly configured the job can be submitted to th
66. ers or punched holes for example You can also choose between the units millimeter mm and hundredths of an inch 1 100 inch 3 The blank page detection segments the area of the page to be worked on into tiles of configurable size The detection is done tile per tile If in the end all tiles are classified as blank the whole page is considered blank The unit for the Tile size value is pt which is equal to 1 72 inch 4 The analysis of a tile s content is block based The size of a block should be set to the size of the smallest meaningful symbol e g the size of a punctuation dot Depending on the page www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 24 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual image s resolution a block spans multiple pixels The unit for the Block size is pt which is equal to 1 72 inch 5 For each block a value is calculated that represents how much the block s color intensity differs from other blocks in the tile Each block that has a deviance that exceeds a certain value is considered non blank This value is influenced by the Sensitivity property The sensitivity is a value in the range of 1 through 100 A low sensitivity causes only strong colored structures to be counted as being non blank In contrast a high sensitivity also takes pale textures into account 6 Atile is considered non blank if the number of non blank blocks exceeds a certain threshold The Threshold is given in per
67. es OCR recognition languages E German new spelling E Portuguese E Portuguese Brazilian E Spanish Auto detect page orientation Advanced OCR Options 1 The Mode section lets you control the tradeoff between OCR accuracy and speed www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 39 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual a Most accurate is the mode which gives the highest accuracy in character recognition It should be used when the input image quality or resolution is low and recognition time is not that critical b Balanced is an intermediate mode between most accurate and fast mode c Fast provides 2 2 5 times faster recognition speed at the cost of a moderately increased error rate 1 5 2 times more errors On good print quality texts the OCR engine makes an average of 1 2 errors per page and such moderate increase in error rate can be tolerated in most cases 2 Select the OCR recognition languages from the list Text recognition will be more accurate if you select exactly those languages that appear in your documents More languages are available upon request please send e mail to info Iluratech com Note OCR for Chinese Japanese and Korean CJK languages is available but requires a dedicated license 3 You may choose Additional Output Formats to export the OCR results in various formats in addition to the PDF output Note Whenever you select an additional OCR
68. es You can view and edit them in a simple text editor It is recommended to work with automatically generated job list files as follows Set up your job list 12 Note that it is not necessary for the automatic job list processing to run the GUI or even to log in ifan entry is configured as a hot folder this property is temporarily turned off for automatic job list processing Hot folders do never stop processing thus the corresponding list would never be finished and unloaded www luratech com info luratech com Automatic Job List Processing 69 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual within PDF Compressor first Export the job list to a file Modify only the basic entries explained in the list at the end of this section A job list file has the following structure A line with the keyword LURATECH_PDF_COMPRESSOR_ENTRY_START_UTF8 lt num gt starts a new entry in the list lt num gt is the number of the entry counting from zero This number is written when exporting a list but is ignored for import The _UTF8 bit serves to clarify the text encoding We highly recommend using Unicode UTF8 encoding since it will properly represent all sorts of special characters such as accented vowels German umlauts and Slavic or Cyrillic characters in paths file names and other text strings As a fallback the keyword LURATECH_PDF_COMPRESSOR_ENTRY_START_ANSI lt num gt can be used in cases where use of a Unicode compliant encoding is impossib
69. essing The option Complete all jobs of highest priority before starting further jobs only takes effect if Priority Processing Order is chosen as the general processing order For more information on priority processing please compare List Processing Order p 14 By default the option Complete all jobs of highest priority before starting further jobs is selected This means that no jobs of lower priority than the ones currently being processed until all jobs of this highest priority have been finished This may be desirable in some situations but may lead to unnecessary idle times with two or more licensed processor cores If the option is disabled PDF Compressor will still start jobs in order of their priorities but will allow for jobs of different priorities to run at the same time thereby using the full capacity of all available cores In either case newly started jobs of higher priority will take precedence over the currently running ones as soon as any active processor core has finished creating its current output file lf the Complete all jobs setting is changed it will immediately take effect but will not cause cancellation of any current processing Managing Licenses Luratech PDF Compressor Enterprise uses page based licenses which may restrict the compression or other features to a certain number of pages It can maintain multiple licenses each providing a contingent of remaining pages for certain set of features A
70. essor However LuraTech will keep existing names values and semantics compatible as far as possible www luratech com info luratech com Automatic Job List Processing 71 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 8 Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API The PDF Compressor API for Application Programming Interface is an additional interface to the PDF Compressor Service introduced with version 7 2 Using this interface 3 party Windows applications and services can programmatically submit jobs to a PDF CE instance running on the same computer To make use of the API an external program must link against a DLL distributed with the regular PDF Compressor installation No restrictions or extra licenses apply The API DLL comes in three different flavors e a native 32 bit DLL with a C programming interface e anative 64 bit DLL with a C programming interface e a NET 2 0 Assembly for both 32 and 64 bit environments which will internally load the appropriate native version As all three interfaces offer equivalent functionality we refer to them collectively as AP DLL here An application that has incorporated the PDF Compressor API DLL becomes an API client It can then create job configurations and submit them to the PDF Compressor via synchronous or asynchronous function calls The progress of these jobs can then be monitored via callback functions and the caller can directly receive success or error messages In order to acc
71. f paragraph line and character attributes and formatting information available in the ABBYY XML format but without word or character recognition variants Note f the Deskewing option was chosen along with the ABBYY or ABBYY extended XML format the additional Deskew XML coordinates option lets you choose whether coordinates written to the XML files refer to the original image or the deskewed results With the Full Simplified Word level and Line level formats the coordinates given within the XML files always relate to the resampled and not deskewed input image compare Advanced Input Options p 19 4 Enable Deskewing if you want the OCR engine to deskew align your pages This option only applies to raster input documents or PDFs which have been rasterized 5 Auto detect page orientation rotates the page images in steps of 90 degrees to ensure that the text is correctly oriented This is a useful feature when pages have been scanned with wrong orientation but it only works for raster input documents or PDFs which have been rasterized Advanced OCR Options The Advanced OCR Options dialog is opened via the Advanced OCR Options button of the OCR tab www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 41 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Advanced OCR Options a i OCR recognized text types Normal Fast binarization method E Typewriter T E Dot Matrix Printer L Text color detection E OCR A INCI
72. g LICENSES sisare cea renee EAE E unthivares note Er 77 Managing the PDF Compressor Service ssssscccccssseccecceesececccaesececeeaunsecessaeassecessauaeees 80 Porn Dietil OPONE an Enna AE EANA E AEA E T EEE ene E E 82 TO TDS ana TICKS oaren E EEEE EE ETTE 84 Te T OUDIESNOONNE sscsececesace tees resacnescseedeuescsesicnueesesicussetocaciusdscenciasececienes 85 12 License Aer ECMO sirna srinn Ensine n 88 13 Support and Contact sesessesessssessssecessesessesessssesosoessssesesoecsessesessesee 92 www luratech com info luratech com PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 1 Introduction LuraTech PDF Compressor is an industrial strength solution for automated document conversion and compression Through its scalability it is suited for processing small amounts of data as well as large quantities of input The PDF Compressor compresses and converts scanned documents to PDF or PDF A Using the Born Digital Module further digital input formats such as MS Office documents PDF and e mails in MSG or EML format including attachments can be converted to PDF A The outstanding document compression provided by the PDF Compressor Enterprise greatly reduces file sizes while ensuring prime document quality in an ISO standard compliant format suitable for long term archiving The fully integrated OCR engine provides for full text searchable PDF compression results Created documents can automatically be handed over to downstream sys
73. gs Copying security settings from input files is only possible in PDF optimization mode www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 30 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 2 Compatibility lets you select Reader 3 0 or Reader 5 0 security compatibility Depending on this setting the following access permission options will slightly differ See the PDF Reference document available from Adobe for details 3 A password needed to open the PDF document can be set If this option is selected when copying security settings from the PDF input file the corresponding password of the input file regardless if any is needed will be replaced by the password given here The given password is stored within PDF Compressor in an encrypted way Note that this encryption does not meet the highest security demands 4 A password needed to change permissions of the PDF document can be set If this option is selected when copying security settings from the PDF input file the corresponding password of the input file regardless if any is needed will be replaced by the password given here Please note that the change permissions password can be bypassed by third party products that do not fully support and respect the access permissions settings The given password is stored within PDF Compressor in an encrypted way Note that this encryption does not meet the highest security demands If a change permissions password is given an
74. h com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 13 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Hot folder jobs see Configuring Input Data p 15 are considered done when their input folder is empty Once new input files are detected a hot folder job becomes active again and is processed according to its priority setting Priority Processing Order allows setting up complex job dependencies High priority hot folder jobs can be used to dynamically suspend other lower priority jobs The priority of a job can be changed at any time even when it is running Thus it allows you to start an interim job to be processed immediately without stopping a currently running job Please find more information on priority processing options under Priority Processing p 77 List Processing Order Priority Processing Order is the preferred way to control the order in which jobs are processed For backward compatibility List Processing Order is still available To enable List Processing Order disable Priority Processing Order from the File menu In List Processing Order mode all jobs are processed in the order they appear in the job list Priorities are ignored and jobs are executed sequentially There is no way to dynamically suspend a running job Job List Processing In Job List Processing mode see Automatic Job List Processing p 68 PDF Compressor dynamically reads job lists from the job list folder In API Mode jobs can be passed via a programmatic inte
75. he document as if it did not contain the problematic metadata at all 6 If the Export bitonal segmentation mask as Fax Group 4 TIFF is enabled the mask layer of the MRC Compression sometimes referred to as text layer is exported as a separate bitonal TIFF file These TIFF files will be placed in the PDF output folder and will be named according to the PDF files Multipage TIFF images are generated for multipage PDF output files 7 To support tag based interpretation of text by PDF software you can enable Add structure tags Tags are for example necessary to successfully read the PDF result using the Read Out Loud feature in Adobe Software When creating PDF A 1a output it is not necessary to enable this feature Structure tags are always created in case of PDF A conformance level a output even in case the option is disabled www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 36 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Configuring Post Processing The Post Processing tab lets you configure additional actions to be performed on input files once they have been processed Properties of Invoices Name Invoices Post Processing Input File Renaming Rename input files after successful processing File name template LF Input File Handling upon Success Keep input file Delete input file Move input file to C Lura Tech P DF Compressor invoices Done Overwrite existing Delete empty folders Inpu
76. imer Input Status Finding and Processing Job Lists The PDF Compressor service is looking for job list files and its associated control files within the folder that is specified by the Options dialog see Finding and Processing Job Lists p 68 www luratech com info luratech com Automatic Job List Processing 68 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Whenever it finds one or more control files go it starts to process the oldest of these files This implements a first in first out strategy When a file listOO01 go signal a job list to be processed is going to be processed PDF Compressor tries to load a job list from the file listOO01 dat the job list to be processed You will see the corresponding jobs in the PDF Compressor s list window The format of the dat files is the same as used for job list import and export see Job List File Syntax p 69 During processing the control file go is renamed to wrk When all the entries of a list have been processed without any error the control file wrk is renamed to rdy list0001 rdy processing is ready all files succeeded If an error occurred with any of the processed files the control file is renamed to err list0001 err processing is ready an error or abort occurred If the stop button is pressed while there are still running entries in the list all entries are aborted immediately and the control file signals an error err This ensures that you
77. in this case a Normal This selection corresponds to a common typographic type of text b Typewriter This selection tells the OCR engine to presume that the text on the recognized page is typed on a typewriter www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 42 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 10 11 c Dot matrix printer This selection tells the OCR engine to presume that the text on the recognized page is printed on a dot matrix printer d OCRA This selection corresponds to a mono spaced font designed for Optical Character Recognition Largely used by banks credit card companies and similar businesses It is specified in ANSI INCITS 17 1981 e OCR B This selection corresponds to a font designed for Optical Character Recognition It is the successor of OCR A and standardized in ISO 1073 2 f MICR E13B This selection corresponds to a special set of numeric characters printed with special magnetic inks MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition characters are found in a variety of places including personal checks g MICR CMCZ7 This selection corresponds to the special MICR barcode font CMC 7 Use the Fast binarization method to have the OCR use algorithms for fast image binarization In most cases this leads to noticeable in special cases dramatically faster OCR processing but can also go along with lower recognition quality Text color detection enables the detection of text and backg
78. ination cannot be deleted because it is write protected or opened and locked by another application Try to delete the file at move destination using the Windows Explorer Please check the log file see Log File Analysis p 76 Is your destination directory a network share where the underlying PDF Compressor service has no access rights See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for details Is the input file write protected Try to delete the file by use of the Windows Explorer Please also check the log file see Log File Analysis p 76 Is the output file write protected or opened by another application Try to delete the file by use of the Windows Explorer Please check the log file see Log File Analysis p 76 Check if the configured log file destination really exists If it exists does it have write rights Is it opened and locked by another application Try to move the log file out of the way by use of the Windows Explorer Is the log file located on a network share where the underlying PDF Compressor service has no access rights See Choosing the Service Account p 81 for details Troubleshooting 86 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual PDF Compressor Does the underlying PDF Compressor service have full access displays a message rights to its installation folder Invalid license Within the Options dialog try to stop and restart the service compare Managing the PDF Compressor Ser
79. info luratech com Getting Started 11 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 5 Setting up Job Entries You can edit a job entry s properties once it has been added to the list see Adding Entries to the List p 10 The properties dialog window can be opened by any of the following actions e Double click the corresponding entry within the list e Use the right click context menu associated with the list entry ei LuraTech PDF Compressor File Entry View Help BREWt liG O Oe SSl El O CALura Tech POF Compressor Start Plans C LuraTech PDF Compressor ZUGFeRD stop C LuraTech PDF Compressor Add New Entry Clone Job Delete Properties Export Job e Select the entry and use the toolbar s properties button it e Select the entry and use the menu Entry gt Properties Within the properties dialog you can change the name of the entry to make it easier for you to identify the corresponding job The entry name is also used within the log file compare Log Files p 75 to identify information warnings and errors Configuring General Job Properties The General tab lets you configure general properties of the selected job You can define the priority of the job here and you can configure a delayed start and periodical stop and restart of the job www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 12 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Properties of Invoices Na
80. ks C Replace existing PDF bookmarks Bookmark file location General input directory Directory al J File name template F bkmk xmi www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 47 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 1 The option Embed one bookmark per input file is only enabled when merging input documents In that case it will insert a bookmark for each input file pointing to the location of its original first page in the output file 2 Select Embed PDF bookmarks to embed existing bookmarks in XML format into your output PDFs The XML encoding must be utf 8 A XML sample file and the schema definition can be found in the examples subfolder of the installation a Select Replace existing PDF bookmarks to replace bookmarks already present in PDF input files Otherwise these entries will be preserved and the additional metadata will be appended This setting has no effect on input files in formats other than PDF b Select General input directory to read PDF bookmark files from the same directory as the input files for compression Alternatively choose Directory and specify a different source directory c Under File name template you can specify a template to derive the name of each PDF bookmark input file from the name of the corresponding input file for compression See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for more information on template syntax OCR Result Embedding Options
81. le and an ANSI encoding must be used instead The properties of a job list entry are given by a number of lines each of the form lt property_name gt lt value gt A lt property_name gt is an ASCII string defined by PDF Compressor It does not contain any white space PDF Compressor reads known names and it ignores lines with unknown names A lt value gt is either a decimal integer like 300 or a string in quotation marks like Entry 01 Note that strings do not escape any contained quotation character A string begins after the first occurrence of the character in a line and ends just before the last occurrence of the character Examples name Entry 01 set the name of the entry to Entry 01 name Entry 01 set the name of the entry to Entry 01 Line feeds hex OA carriage returns hex OD and the character are escaped by the following sequences 0A 0D and No other substitutions occur Example keywords Key 1 0D O0AKey 2 sets the keyword metadata field to two lines Key 1 and Key 2 using a carriage return line feed for the line separator A job list entry within a job list file doesn t have to contain all the defined lt property_name gt keywords When loading an entry the value of a property is calculated as follows 1 Use the default value See Section Setting up the Default Properties p 58 on how to setup the general default values For a single job list file with several jobs entries the gener
82. les required to incorporate them in an API client can be found in the api include folder The api folder also contains a PDF manual for the API and sample source code in the api samples ApiDemo sub folder The NET API The subfolder of the PDF Compressor s installation also contains the NET version of the API DLL as PDF_CompApi NET dll It is also accompanied by documentation and sample source code in the api samples ApiDemo NET The API Assembly itself requires NET 2 0 but can be used with higher versions The assembly is strongly named and can therefore be installed in the Global Assembly Cache GAC www luratech com info luratech com Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API 73 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Note The NET API Assembly comprises a wrapper around the native API DLLs therefore all three DLLs are required by a NET API client at runtime API Demo Applications Two sample demo applications are deployed with PDF Compressor Enterprise PDF_CompApi_Demo exe is a simple command line client using the native C DLL it uses the DLL version matching the operating system PDF_CompApi_DemoGUI exe comprises a simple WinForms user interface permitting a user to interactively configure a handful of common job settings and then to launch the corresponding job and receive its progress messages These two applications correspond to the compiled versions of the sample source code projects found under api s
83. library Copyright reference for the TIFF library Copyright 1988 1996 Sam Leffler Copyright 1991 1996 Silicon Graphics Inc LuraTech Software Products may include the JPEG library of the Independent JPEG group Copyright reference for the JPEG library libJPEG 6b 27 Mar 1998 Copyright c 1998 Thomas G Lane Permission to use copy modify distribute and sell this software and is documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee provided that i the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation and ii the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity www luratech com info luratech com License Agreement 89 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual relating to the software without the specific prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics LuraTech Software Products may include Ghostscript Copyright reference for Ghostscript Portions Copyright 2001 artofcode LLC This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group This software is based in part on the work of the Freetype Team Portions Copyright 2001 URW All Rights Reserved LuraTech Software Products may include ABBYY FineReader 10 0 Copyright reference for ABBYY ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 0 1993 2010 ABBYY The End User is granted a Runtime License for the ABBYY SD
84. license can also be limited in time thus be valid only during a certain period Not valid before Not valid after The www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 77 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual page contingent can be limited or unlimited And there is also a license type that has a refilling page quota e g the remaining pages count fills up to 5000 pages each month Options Configuration License POF Compressor Service Born Digital Options Property Value Remaining pages unlimited Not walid before no restrictor Mot valid after no restrictor uote n a Nest automatic refill n a Compression enabled OCR Engine unlimited pages Fi eee Pe l el M ekin Llan Number of licensed processor cores 4 Request license Import license Windows Event Log F Write license status to windows event log Daily at 02 00 After FUL When the LuraTech PDF Compressor is installed for the first time it is running in evaluation mode which causes all output document pages to contain a visible watermark OCR is possible in evaluation mode but you are not allowed to output the OCR results in additional formats such as XML HTML etc see Configuring OCR and Barcode Recognition p 39 The purchased PDF Compressor application includes a license Server unlimited Basic limited to a certain number of pages Advanced limited to a certain number of pages per
85. lue corresponds to higher image compression ratios and thus to smaller file sizes 2 Document Class You can use different classes to optimize the compression results for specific input document types a MRC Standard should be used for all purpose input documents This is the default setting b MRC Check should be used to obtain better quality if the input document contains a lot of fine structures like lines thin graphical drawings etc c Photo turns off the segmentation into layers Everything is put into the background image layer This should be only used if your input is of image type no or only few text and or graphics d B W black amp white turns off image color Your documents are stored in black and white color as if they had been transmitted by a b w fax machine 3 PDF Optimization Optimization is done by recoding bitonal and or color images with more efficient compression algorithms Such optimization will be performed unless you set the Rasterize PDF Input setting to Always compare Configuring Input Data p 15 www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 54 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual a Enable Bitonal image optimization to apply recoding of bitonal images using advanced JBIG2 compression The JBIG2 options described under Configuring Advanced Compression Options p 55 will be used for this recoding b Enable Color image optimization to apply recoding of color images found within the
86. ly Embed thumbnail images for page preview 1 Enable Create thumbnail image files JPEG format to turn the thumbnail output on 2 Max size contains the maximal dimensions of the output thumbnail images in pixel The first number is the horizontal size the second is the vertical size The aspect ratio of a page will not be changed Example Assume Max size is set to 150 x 150 a A20 x 30cm sized page will be scaled to 100 x 150 pixels b A 30x 20cm sized page will be scaled to 150 x 100 pixels 3 Set Quality to any value between 1 and 100 This is used to specify the image quality of the output JPEG files Higher qualities result in larger file size 4 The Name template is used to define the thumbnail file naming convention It uses escape sequences as specified in Template String Syntax Description p 59 A typical sequence contains F as a substitute for the input file name and P as a substitute for the current page number See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for details and examples on output file naming or press the help button Ww within the PDF Compressor application 5 Enable First page only if you only want to output a thumbnail for the first page of a document Otherwise thumbnails for all the document pages will be output 6 If Enable thumbnail images for page preview is activated thumbnail images for each page will be embedded into the output PDF file This results in a larger size of the PDF file but
87. m gt where lt num gt is the first available number When the entry is created by drag amp drop the input path is set accordingly The output path defaults to the input path in this case Entries can be deleted by any of the following actions e Use the context menu on top of the entry to be deleted Choose Delete e Select an entry and use the toolbar s delete button E e Select an entry and use the menu Entry gt Delete All entries can be deleted by use of the menu File gt Delete All Job Entries Sometimes it is useful to create a copy of an existing entry e g you might only want to change the compression quality and output folder for comparison reasons An entry can be copied by any of the following actions e Use the context menu on top of the entry to be deleted Choose nsert Copy e Select an entry and use the menu Entry gt Insert Copy www luratech com info luratech com Managing the Job List 65 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Changing the Sequence of Job Entries To change the order of the list you can move entries up and down e Select an entry and use the toolbar s up Tand down l buttons e Select an entry and use the menu Entry gt Move Up or Entry gt Move Down See Priority Processing p 77 for details on the processing order of the job list entries Starting and Stopping Job Entries Individual Entries A selected entry can be started and stopped aborted by any of the following action
88. me Invoices Job Prionty bs Time Scheduled Processing Start job at Fr 28 Feb 2014 10 14 Duration 3 urease E Restart interval Days Advanced Job Options Job List Processing Order The Job priority can be set to values from 1 highest to 10 lowest Lower numbers correspond to higher priority This setting is only available when the menu File gt Priority Processing Order is enabled The toolbar button can also be used to switch Priority Processing mode on and off Priority Processing Order If Priority Processing Order is enabled jobs with higher priorities are processed before lower priority jobs All jobs with the same priority are executed concurrently by processing its job units in interleaved order Once a unit is done the next unit of the next job with same priority is processed When more than one CPU core is licensed and enabled more than one job unit will be processed at the same time The list of progress bars located in the lower part of the main window shows information for each CPU core including the job units that are currently processed A job unit contains all input files that contribute to one output PDF document If input merging is enabled compare Configuring Input Data p 15 this includes all files that are merged into a single document otherwise it is just one single input file All entries of the job list must be stopped to change the Priority Processing mode www luratec
89. mill one tenth of a percent defining the maximum fraction of non blank blocks in relation to blank blocks for a full size tile to still be classified as blank 7 The option Exclude blank pages from output defines whether detected blank pages are included in the output Checking this option results in the exclusion of detected blank pages Configuring Data Output The Output tab lets you configure PDF output options including the exact version of PDF to generate and the location where generated PDF files are placed Properties of Entry 5 Name Invoices Place output next to input file Place output in directory C lura Tech PDF Compressor Invoices Output Overwrite existing Delete empty folders PDF Output Format PDF A 2u 7 Output Splitting Split output POF files into chunks of 10 pages Split output POF files whenever a new barcode is detected Output File Renaming Rename with template F 04P 02L E Mail Conversion Options www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 25 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 1 Select Place output next to input file and the generated PDF file will be placed into the same directory as the input file Select Place output in directory and specify a folder by use of the browse button to put the output somewhere else See Section Choosing the Service Account p 81 for the use of network shares 2 Overwrite existing lets you select the behavior of P
90. network is low 4 Default Resolution If the input image file does not contain any resolution information the value in dpi given here will be used In addition this value is used when an input PDF file is rasterized PDF files do not have specific resolution information in general www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 19 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual a Enable Optimized dpi for PDF input to automatically choose an optimal dpi value for the rendering of each PDF input page The optimal value is calculated from the resolutions of all images embedded in the PDF input page If there are no images on the page the setting of the Default Resolution will be used Otherwise the highest resolution of the detected images is calculated and clipped to the resolution range given by the Resampling option of the Input tab We recommend enabling this option only when the input PDF documents originate from a scan process b Born digital born PDF documents may contain images of small physical size e g less than an inch in either dimension but containing many pixels e g 1000 x 1000 pixels and thus yielding a non realistic resolution more than 1000 dpi in the example For born digital documents you should either use a fixed Default Resolution value without enabling Optimized dpi for PDF input or specify a narrow resolution range in the Resampling settings 5 Resampling lets you change the input s resolution There ar
91. nformation that is usually not needed b Log errors warnings and info is the recommended setting It logs errors warnings and other basic information With this setting will the log file will give you detailed information on what files have been converted and how many pages from the license have been used c Log errors and warnings will not log the additional conversion information d Log error messages only will log only errors The text edit window for the log file accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop a file from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 75 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 3 The size of the log file can be limited or set to unlimited by the corresponding drop down box a Unlimited logfile size will enable the log file to grow until all your disk space is used This gives you the full history of all your conversions It is the default setting When your server is performing high volume conversions and when it is not frequently monitored it is recommended to limit the log file size by any of the other settings b Limit to lt num gt limits the log file size to the given amount Once a log message is written that lets the log file size reach its limit the file lt log file gt log is renamed to lt log file gt log bak within the same directory overwriting any present file of that name A new empty log file lt log file gt
92. nput folders of the jobs you want to run e the output folders of the jobs you want to run e the log file www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 81 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual If you have changed the account the OK button triggers a restart of the service If the given password is not correct you will get an error message Starting stopping and restarting the a service can be also done by the corresponding buttons within the Options dialog Important Note When configuring a network share for input or output files make sure that you use the syntax host share directory to specify the location within the nput Output and Options tabs Mapped network drives like Y directory cannot be used since they are not available to the PDF Compressor Service even when you have changed the service account Setup the Service Priority Depending on your workflow you might want to change the process priority of the PDF Compressor service When your workflow is designed to run PDF Compressor on its own PC that is only used for document processing it is best to set Process priority to Normal When your PC has only a single CPU core and you are working with the PC while PDF Compressor processes its jobs in the background it may help to set the Process priority to Low This will cause PDF Compressor not to interfere too much with your work You should keep in mind that the priority Low is typically the same
93. o get an effective resolution of 300 dpi The embedded image will only be 300 x 150 pixels thus causing smaller output files than without scaling The following diagram shows how the watermark image placement is calculated vertical border top center horizontal border max width middle center max height bottom center Output page Configuring Document Compression The Compression tab lets you configure the options for the image compression These include the overall quality setting adoption to special input document types and other options www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 53 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Properties of Invoices Name Invoices Quality 6 low Document Class MRC Standard Used for typical documents mostly text with some images tables or diagrams MRC Check Similar to MAC Standard but better preservation of fine line structures and small or low contrast text Photo Used for documents with large images no multifayer compression results in larger file sizes BAW Used for documents without colored content output will be plain black and white PDF Optimization Mask Codec Bitonal image optimization JBIG2 Color image optimization A Fax G4 1 Quality Affects the compression of grayscale and color images in the PDF A higher quality value results in higher PDF image quality but PDF file sizes will increase A lower quality va
94. of the original PDF A 1 standard allowing for some additional types of content such as images compressed using JPEG2000 and other PDF A files embedded as attachments g PDF A 2u ISO 19005 2 This is the general recommended default The format is the same as PDF A 2b with the additional advantage that all text within the PDF must have a consistent Unicode mapping h PDF A 3b ISO 19005 1 The PDF A 3 standard is equivalent to PDF A 2 with the only difference that it allows files of arbitrary type to be embedded as attachment to the PDF A 3 documents i PDF A 3u ISO 19005 1 Corresponds to PDF A 3b again with the additional requirement for text within the PDF to have a consistent Unicode mapping 5 Output Splitting can be activated in two ways a Split output PDF files into chunks of lt number gt pages lets you limit the number of pages output to a single PDF document Instead of writing huge PDF documents with many pages a series of output files can be created each with the specified number of pages Depending on the number of input pages the last file of the output series will contain less pages This mode is typically used with Output File Renaming using a template string with P L or C escape sequences see item 6 below b Split output PDF files when new barcode is detected is only available when the barcode detection is turned on at the OCR tab see Configuring OCR and Barcode Recognition p 39 If enabled
95. of the supported input file types are extracted and converted as well PDF documents can be converted to PDF or PDF A Again the distinction between these output formats is specified via the options on the Output tab of the Properties dialog see Configuring Data Output p 25 Note that the conversion of PDF does not involve the MS Office or OpenOffice applications Certain options are available to improve the stability of the Born Digital conversion e g by restarting it automatically For details see Born Digital Options p 82 www luratech com info luratech com Concept of PDF Compressor 9 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 4 Getting Started This section describes the basic steps to convert scanned document files to PDF files More details can be found under Setting up Job Entries p 12 Starting the GUI To start the GUI either double click the LuraTech PDF Compressor taskbar icon f or use the Windows start menu entry LuraTech gt PDF Compressor Enterprise gt PDF Compressor When you start the GUI for the first time you will see an empty list a LuraTech PDF Compressor File Enty View Help iz Name Status Pronty Timer Input Adding Entries to the List There are several ways to add new entries The most straightforward one is opening the Windows Explorer and dragging amp dropping a file or a folder onto the list window The new entry will be set up to convert the given file or all file
96. on service the PDF Compressor service user account must be set to Loca System or to an account which is member of the local Administrators group see Choosing the Service Account p 81 1 Detect stuck conversion processes Define how long a conversion should take at maximum The default value of 43200 seconds means 12 hours So if the system gets stuck and the situation is not noticed at least after half a day the conversion service will be recovered Usually a single conversion takes much less time so that a value of 600 10 minutes might be more convenient 2 Daily restart of conversion service In order to ensure to start with a clean system every morning you might choose to activate this option The restart is triggered at the specified time Running conversion processes are not aborted PDF Compressor waits for them to finish before finally cleaning up and restarting the conversion service 3 Maximum number of parallel conversions specifies how many Born Digital conversion processes PDF Compressor should attempt to run in parallel The maximum available number is the number of processor cores licensed for Born Digital conversion www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 83 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 10 Tips and Tricks This section contains some hints you may find useful The easiest way to create a new entry in the job list is to drag amp drop files or folders from the Windows Explorer
97. option present in older versions of PDF Compressor has been moved to the Advanced Output Options dialog described under Configuring Advanced Compression Options p 55 Note The PDF input rasterization option present in older versions of PDF Compressor has been moved to the Advanced Input Options dialog described under Configuring Advanced PDF Input Options p 19 Setting up the Default Properties Each job list entry has its own properties settings There is one additional set of properties that is not related to any specific job list entry This set is called Default Properties They are used as a template whenever you create a new entry in the list You can open the Default Properties dialog by any of the following actions e Use the toolbar s default properties button ie e Use the menu Entry gt Edit Default Properties e When an entries properties dialog is already opened Unselect the currently selected entry by clicking outside any entries region within the list window The Default Properties dialog is similar to an entries properties dialog Only the few differences are described here www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 58 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Default Properties Note Default properties are used to create new job entries File Directory E Include subfolders Delete empty folders E Check every 30 seconds Input file formats Merce all of af Raster Images erge all
98. ormats such as Microsoft Office and saved e mail messages can be converted Multipage TIFF and PDF files are recognized and converted to multipage PDF documents Moreover you can set up input resampling to adjust the resolution of your data www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 15 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Properties of Invoices Name Invoices File Directory E Include subfolders Delete empty folders C Lura Tech P DF Compressor Invoices Input Check every 30 seconds Input File Formats TIFF A pa aie a folder to a JPEG eres JPEG 2000 A Use lock files for PDF BMP Compressor synchronization PNM E GIF F PNG PDF JPM E PDF E JPM Born Digital E MS Word kae Monl E Etra Extensions List Rastenze PDF Input 1 Choose File if you want to convert a single file or Directory if you want to convert all files within the given folder The browse button lets you select the file or directory You cannot use mapped network drives to specify the input file or directory The underlying PDF Compressor Service has no knowledge on mapped network drives Instead you can specify the network share using the syntax host share dir See the section Choosing the Service Account p 81 for setting access rights in this case 2 When Directory is selected you have the following options a Enable Include subfolders if the whole directory sub tree should be
99. output the overwrite protection see Overwrite existing within the Output tab under Configuring Data Output p 25 is extended to the additional file formats Example The output name is outfile pdf you select additional Plain Text OCR output and Overwrite existing is disabled If any of the files outfile pdf or outfile txt already exist the PDF Compressor will not process the corresponding input file You need to enable Overwrite existing if you want to overwrite existing files Important Note Some of the additional OCR output formats may create auxiliary files e g JPEG images to be used within an output HTML file These auxiliary files are not subject to overwrite protection Thus an existing file that has the same name as an auxiliary file will be overwritten regardless of the setting for Overwrite existing See the list below for what formats create what auxiliary files a Plain Text exports OCR results as unformatted text ANSI code page Extension is txt No auxiliary files b CSV exports OCR results as comma separated values in plain text ANSI code page This mainly makes sense when the input document contains tables that should be imported into some other application Extension is csv No auxiliary files c Rich Text Format exports OCR results in Microsoft RTF format to be opened with Microsoft Word Extension is rtf No auxiliary files d HTML exports OCR results in HTML format Extension is htm Embedded images a
100. plying the LuraTech MRC compression technique If Automatic has been chosen for Rasterize PDF Input PDF files may be rasterized e g if conversion to PDF A is not possible otherwise BMP enables the conversion of bmp files Palletized images as well as some exotic variants are not supported yet PNM enables the conversion of ppm and pgm files GIF enables the conversion of gif files PNG enables the conversion of png files The formats MS Word MS Excel MS PowerPoint E Mail OpenOffice Writer OpenOffice Calc OpenOffice Impress are only available if the Born Digital conversion option is installed Any combination of these input document types can be converted to PDF or PDF A Refer to Born Digital Conversion p 8 and Requirements of the Born Digital Conversion Option p 5 for details on Born Digital Conversion Setting up Job Entries 17 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Extra Extensions List serves to supply a list of additional file extensions to process This entry is only enabled when Born Digital Conversion is installed The individual extensions entered must be separated by blank spaces 3 The Advanced Input Options button opens a dialog for configuring more input options See Sections Configuring Advanced PDF Input Options p 19 for details 4 If you configure multiple PDF Compressor Enterprise installations to work with the same input directory typically a net share you need to enable Us
101. r you might need an update license for the new application In such a case the Options Dialog will show an additional button Set update license which allows you to set the update license External License Monitoring The PDF Compressor can be configured to write license status information to the Windows Event Log in a regular manner This can help to ensure continuous PDF Compressor operation when dealing with limited page contingents In the License section of the Options dialog activate the option Write license status to windows event log You can configure the trigger when to write the updated license status to the event log either in a daily manner at certain time or based on page consumption The license status events are written to the protocol LuraTech PDF Compressor Enterprise PDF CompSrv License Info If your license contains sub licenses you will see a single event for each sub license www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 79 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual You can use the Windows Event Viewer to check the events but more likely you will use system management or monitoring tools to evaluate the data File Action View Help es 0 EA 2 Event Viewer Local License Info Number of events 3 gt Custom Views gt a Windows Logs Level Date and Time SOUrCE a Applications and Services Logs Information 25 06 2015 07 15 04 POF_Compsre Hardware Events Information 24 06 2015 16 49
102. r handling PDF input documents a Automatic is the default setting In this mode PDF Compressor will automatically determine in which cases to convert typeset or vector contents of PDF input files into raster graphics It will try to avoid such conversions but will resort to them as a fallback option for documents that cannot be converted otherwise b Always this mode will convert all pages of all PDF input documents to raster graphics before compressing or converting them For PDF input this mode is equivalent to the former MRC Compression mode c With the Never setting the PDF Compressor will not try to rasterize any non raster input In this way you avoid unintentional conversion of typeset or vector content into raster graphics On the other hand this may result in failure to convert certain kinds of PDF input files to PDF A Please note that with the Automatic or Never setting chosen raster graphics already present in the input documents may still be resampled or compressed if Color image optimization or Bitonal image optimization are selected on the Compression tab Such graphics may e g be scanned pages or large images inside a PDF document www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 18 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Configuring Advanced PDF Input Options Clicking the Advanced Input Options button brings up a dialog with further settings concerning input options Advanced Input Options Advan
103. re stored as auxiliary files with naming convention lt output name gt lt image number gt jpg e MS Excel exports OCR results in Microsoft Excel format Extension is xls No auxiliary files f MS PowerPoint exports OCR results in Microsoft PowerPoint format Extension is ppt An auxiliary directory lt output name gt _files is created It contains various files used by the PowerPoint document www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 40 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual g ALTO exports OCR results in the open XML standard ALTO Analyzed Layout and Text Object h XML exports OCR results in XML format Extension is xml The XML style can be chosen from the list next to the XML option i Full all possible XML attributes will be written large XML files li Simplified some optional attributes will be suppressed smaller XML files iii Word level detailed character related information is suppressed The recognized text is set as direct content of the formatting element Resulting XML files are very small much smaller than simplified they are human readable and easier to post process iv Line level similar to word level but without any formatting information v ABBYY corresponds to the default XML format written by the FineReader Engine Contents are written as lines of text surrounded by additional XML formatting tags vi ABBYY extended corresponds to the full range o
104. re running in evaluation mode visible watermark Please order and install a license or an update license See Managing Licenses p 77 The output PDF looks Unfortunately some viewers do not properly render and display strange within PDF layers and transparencies as generated by PDF Compressor Mozilla Firefox or In order to verify the integrity of your documents try viewing other applications with them with an Adobe Reader 7 0 or higher or the Foxit PDF rendering Reader capabilities Adobe Reader PDF Compressor can generate PDF output compliant with displays an error different versions of for Adobe Reader see Configuring Data message when opening Output p 25 There are settings for Adobe Reader 5 0 6 0 the PDF file and 7 0 or higher Make sure to use only corresponding Reader versions when opening PDF files generated by PDF Compressor The input document is Has your license expired i e the number of remaining pages is not converted into PDF zero and you are not running in evaluation mode Please order and install a license see Managing Licenses p 77 Did you select the corresponding input file format The Input tab see Configuring Input Data p 15 lets you choose among several input file formats Is your input file of a supported file format PDF Compressor only accepts TIFF JPEG JPEG 2000 PDF BMP or PNM as input format See Configuring Input Data p 15 for further formats
105. reate derivatives from the LuraTech Software or iii sell rent lease loan or distribute the LuraTech Software Product Your rights under this license and your rights to use the LuraTech Software Product will terminate automatically without notice from LuraTech if you fail to comply with any of term s of this license Updates If this LuraTech Software Product is marked as an update then you must have a licensed version of the appropriate full software product The LuraTech Software Product supplements the licensed version of the full product All updates are liable for cost Demo Version LuraTech demo software shareware and the associated documentation are copyright protected LuraTech allows the license holder of the demo software shareware version to make as many copies of the software as required The license holder is forbidden from using the demo software shareware for commercial purposes or to distribute for a fee Student Version If this LuraTech Software Product is marked as a student version then the license holder must have the status of a registered student to have the right to use the product Special Conditions The product LuraWave OCX SDK contains a license file lurawave lic This file must be kept secure and not be accessible or given out to third parties The license holders access codes must be kept secure and not be accessible or given out to third parties LuraTech Software Products may include the TIFF
106. resor Enterprise Manual bearing the file name of the e mail attachment points to the beginning its contents within the PDF output document PDF A 2 permits attachments in PDF A format Therefore the default here is converting each e mail attachment to a PDF A 2 document and then to attach it to the output document as a PDF attachment Since PDF A 3 additionally allows PDF attachments of arbitrary file format the default here is to convert e mail attachments to PDF A and append them as pages to the PDF output document In addition the e mail attachments are embedded as PDF attachments in their original format In all other cases i e when generating Reader 5 0 6 0 or 7 0 compatible PDF each e mail attachment is converted to a PDF document and then embedded as an attachment to the PDF output document b Ignore Attachments simply discards all e mail attachments and merely converts the message bodies c The Specific Conversion setting lets you specify in detail how attachments should be processed Conforming to for the selected PDF Output Format you may choose an arbitrary combination of appending e mail attachments as pages or embedding them as PDF attachments in their original format or converted to PDF A d The option Treat errors during attachment processing as warnings causes PDF Compressor to continue processing even if it failed to process one or more e mail attachments Otherwise this is considered an error an
107. rface see Submitting Jobs via the PDF Compressor API p 72 These modes permit controlling PDF Compressor externally in a workflow setup For Job List Processing the List Processing Order mode can be used to enforce sequential processing of the job lists and the jobs contained In normal Priority Processing Order mode the jobs are processed in parallel and new job lists are added as soon as at least one processor core becomes idle and there are no more jobs pending Time Scheduled Processing Settings for Time Scheduled Processing are enabled by selecting their check boxes The following parameters can then be set for a time scheduled job 1 The desired start time is entered in the Start job at field You can either type in a date and time or pick it from the calendar widget which appears when clicking on the arrow to the right of the entry The job is then started at this point in time 2 The Duration specifies the time span for which the job should run You can select days hours or minutes to specify the duration Once this time has elapsed the job is stopped 3 The Restart interval denotes a second time span after which the stopped job is started again for the given duration This value can only be given in days Once the job has been started such re starts occur periodically unless the configuration is changed Note The Duration and Restart interval settings can be enabled independently This means that a job can run just onc
108. ring www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 63 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual An atom is a regular expression in parentheses matching a match for the regular expression a range see below matching any single character matching the null string at the beginning of the input string S matching the null string at the end of the input string a followed by a single character matching that character or a single character with no other significance matching that character A range is a sequence of characters enclosed in It normally matches any single character from the sequence If the sequence begins with it matches any single character not from the rest of the sequence If two characters in the sequence are separated by this is shorthand for the full list of ASCII characters between them e g 0 9 matches any decimal digit To include a literal in the sequence make it the first character following a possible To include a literal make it the first or last character lt replacement gt is the replacement string to be used to build up the output string if the regular expression found a successful match If the regular expression has no match the output string will be a copy of the input string In case of a successful match each character in the replacement string will be copied to the output string except for the following special characters sequenc
109. round colors This is only relevant when Additional Output Formats are used that can carry text and background color information Rich Text Format HTML MS Excel MS PowerPoint and XML Detecting text and background colors slightly slows down the recognition speed Detect Pictures is enabled for faster recognition ignoring areas that are recognized as images during page analysis Disable the option to recognize all text on a page even inside pictures Enable the Equalize Brightness option to speed up recognition of input pages with low contrast or noisy backgrounds Performance and text structure are also affected by Table Recognition Options Disabling Table recognition may result in slightly faster recognition The Single line per cell and Split only by separators options define the table structure to recognize To detect that no text was found in the input document the option Throw error if no text is found may be enabled Treat OCR errors as warnings means that errors during OCR are only reported as warning but will not stop the processing of the affected document Do not output PDF files disables the output of the compressed PDF file This only makes sense if you are exclusively interested in OCR results output to some of the Additional Output Formats as described below You cannot disable PDF output without choosing at least one of the additional output formats Some regulations for PDF documents require all fonts to
110. rvice It just processes the files you setup within the GUI Since the GUI is independent from the service you can configure and start one or more job entries close the GUI and log off if you want When you open the GUI again you will be informed of the progress of your running jobs Born Digital Conversion The standard version of PDF Compressor Enterprise comprises an optional component for conversion of born digital files such as Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents and e mail messages You can choose whether to install this component since using this component requires an additional license An installed and licensed Born Digital component provides for the following types of con versions 1 Microsoft Office OpenOffice HTML and plain text documents are converted to PDF or PDF A The distinction between these output formats is specified via the options on the Output tab of the Properties dialog see Configuring Data Output p 25 The exact list of format types depends on your installation and configuration of the MS Office and OpenOffice applications Generally supported applications and www luratech com info luratech com Concept of PDF Compressor 8 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual formats include Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook as well as OpenOffice Writer Calc and Impress PDF Compressor also supports the conversion of e mail messages saved in the EML and MSG formats Attachments
111. s e Use the context menu of the entry to be started or stopped Choose Start or Stop e Select an entry and use the toolbar s start E and stop oO buttons e Select an entry and use the menu Entry gt Start or Entry gt Stop e Use the Start and Stop buttons of the entries Properties dialog All Entries All entries can be started or stopped simultaneously by any of the following actions e Use the toolbar buttons or m e Use the menu File gt Start All Job Entries or File gt Stop All Job Entries Use the context menu of the PDF Compressor s taskbar icon right mouse click and choose Start All or Stop All Open main window Close main window Remove from taskbar Start All Job Entries Stop All Job Entries Monitoring Jobs The status of all jobs is listed within the job list It can be one of the following sue oson O OOOO The underlying PDF Compressor service is stopped or has not pa no service been installed See Managing the PDF Compressor Service p 80 for details fed stopped The job is stopped No file conversion will take place A signal has been sent from the GUI to the PDF Compressor starting service to start the job The status will soon change to started or working www luratech com info luratech com Managing the Job List 66 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual i The job has been started and a file conversion is currently workin i performed Ga ki The job h
112. s within the given folder to PDF This output will be placed next to the corresponding input file Changing the default properties can change this behavior The explanations given here are related to the factory default settings www luratech com info luratech com Getting Started 10 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual ta LuraTech PDF Compressor File Entry View Help Name C LuraTech PDF Compressor C LuraTech PDF Compresso fa stopped 5 JE C LuraTech POF Compressor C LuraTech PDF Compresso Running Jobs There are several ways to start jobs represented by the list entries Here we merely describe one of them Select the entry you want to start and press the start button E on the toolbar The status of the entry will change from stopped via starting to working and back to stopped when the job is finished While the job is running you can abort it by pressing the stop button O on the toolbar It may take some seconds until the conversion has been aborted Any incomplete PDF output file will be removed Removing List Entries You can close the GUI without saving your current job list The list will re appear in exactly the same way when you open the GUI again To remove an entry from the list select it and press the delete button WW on the toolbar The current list is instantly stored within the system to make it available to the underlying PDF Compressor service www luratech com
113. sions need to be changed 3 PDF input rasterization options are available unless Rasterize PDF Input has been set to Never a The Interpolate images switch influences the rasterization of PDF input files PDF input files may contain embedded images that need to be scaled for rasterization Interpolate images should be turned on to obtain best image quality However if an input PDF file contains only bitonal image content and this PDF is rasterized to the same resolution as the embedded images resolution the image interpolation can be turned off to speed up an OCR process b Default PDF Page Size lets you select a page size that is used only if the input file is a PDF file that is missing its page size information but has to be rasterized Normally all pages of a PDF file carry page size information However some applications create ill formed PDF files without page size information This option has been added to deal with such malformed PDF files www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 21 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Select user defined at the very end of the list to enter a user defined page size by specifying the width and the height of a page c Selecting the Alternative rasterization method can be useful when input PDF files contain very large pages which lead to out of memory errors The alternative rasterization method consumes significantly less memory but is slower 4 The option Restric
114. speeds up the display of page images within the Pages panel of the Adobe Reader Note www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 34 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual that these thumbnail images do not include any imprints see Configuring Header and Footer p 51 or watermark images see Embedding Watermarks p 52 Advanced Advanced Output Options POF intial View PDF Metadata Thumbnails Fast web view create linearized PDF Enable PDF layer switches not for POF A 1 off for Apple Preview Display text layer only when file is opened E Write ouput files locally and move to output folder Copy bookmarks and other metadata from PDF input files restricted for PDF A Suppress corupt metadata Image input and rastenzed PDF only Export bitonal segmentation mask as Fax Group 4 TIFF E Add structure tags e g for Read Out Loud support 1 Enabling fast web view will optimize the output PDF documents for viewing them within a web browser Standard PDF documents need to be downloaded completely before the very first page is displayed within a web browser This can take a significant amount of time if the internet connection is slow or if the document contains a lot of pages Web optimized PDF documents will show the first page immediately when this portion of the data is downloaded Moreover you can quickly jump to other document pages The Adobe Reader plug in will ju
115. st download the page you selected Depending on your Adobe Reader settings the remaining pages will be downloaded in the background 2 Enable PDF layer switches lets you enable or disable the embedding of PDF layer switches within the output PDF document When this feature is turned on the Adobe Reader will show you switches within its layers tab that let you control the rendering of the internal layers a When the PDF Output Format see Configuring Data Output p 25 is set to min Reader 6 0 The Background switch lets you turn on and off the display of the background image Turning off the background may increase the readability of poor document scans in some cases www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 35 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual The Text Color switch lets you turn on and off the color of the text layer When it is turned off all text will be rendered in back This may increase the readability of text when the original text has very low contrast b When the PDF Output Format see Configuring Data Output p 25 is set to min Reader 5 0 Only the Background switch will be present PDF layer switches are not available for PDF A 1 output compatibility PDF A 1 disallows the use of optional content By default all layer switches are turned on when the PDF file is opened in Adobe Reader If you want to display the text layer only when a file is opened in Acrobat
116. t File Handling upon Failure Keep input file Move input file to Cura Tech PDOF Compressor Invoices Eror E Overwrite existing Delete empty folders 1 Rename input files renames input files according to the given File name template See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for a list of possible escape sequences The help button 7 will display such a list within the PDF Compressor application 2 The next two sections define the action on an input file either if the processing of the file was successful a PDF document could be created or if it failed no PDF output If the job has been aborted by the user before the processing of an input file has been finished the input file will not be moved or deleted in any case as a user abort is not considered a failure There are many reasons why a PDF file cannot be generated The error message written to the log file see Log Files p 75 will give a detailed explanation Common reasons are the input file does not exist or has not the needed access rights the output files already exists but overwriting is not allowed the output folder does not give the right to create new files the input file is corrupted or its format is not supported For successfully processed input files there are three options www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 37 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual a Keep input file The file is just left at its location but may
117. t PDF Conversion Use only PDF Optimization for converting PDF input files is only enabled when the Born Digital Module is installed If selected it serves to suppress the attempt to use Born Digital Conversion functionality when converting PDF input files Instead these files are only processed using PDF Optimization features Note This option primarily serves to guarantee backward compatibility with jobs set up with pre 7 0 versions of PDF Compressor which used the PDF Optimization mode for converting PDF input In general it is preferable to use the conversion provided by the Born Digital Module Input Filter Options On the Input Filter tab of the Advanced Input Options dialog you can configure options that exclude certain input files from being processed by PDF Compressor Advanced Input Options Input Fiter Bank Pape Detection Bypass processing of PDF input files smallerthan 100 Metadata Filter Off Skip matching 6 Process matching Metadata key to check Author Search text Bob Skip Match whole value Copy skipped files to directory C LuraTech PDF Compressor Invoices Skipped Skipped files are directly passed to input processing on success 1 The Bypass PDF files smaller than kB option serves to skip the processing of input files smaller than the given file size This can e g be used to suppress the processing of already compressed PDF files www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 22
118. tch the regular expression Exclude pages with detected barcode from output Add bookmark for each barcode E Treat every barcode value as a new value OK Cancel Recognized barcode values can be added to the PDF metadata see PDF Metadata p 33 used to specify an output filename see Configuring Data Output p 25 and it can trigger the start of a new output document output splitting by barcode detection Configuring Data Output p 25 1 The Detected barcode type can be selected from the drop down list Auto Detect will recognize all supported barcode types Many 1D barcodes as well as 2D barcodes are supported The text edit window for the directory path accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop a folder from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 44 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 2 Select Restrict detection to rectangle if you do not want to detect barcodes from the whole page area but want to specify a certain region where barcodes are going to be detected The rectangular region is defined by specifying two points e g the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the rectangle A point is given by its distance from the left or right edge of the page and by its distance from the top or bottom edge of the page Use the drop down selectors to set left or right for the horizontal distance and top or bottom for the vertical
119. templates www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 46 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Metadata Embedding Options S Embed XMF metadata Replace existing AMP metadata XMP file location General input directory Directory al File name template F xmp E Copy XMP page metadata Add list of input files 1 Select Embed XMP metadata to embed existing metadata in XMP XML format into your output PDFs da Select Replace existing XMP metadata to replace metadata already present in PDF input files Otherwise these data will be preserved and the additional metadata will be appended This setting has no effect on input files in formats other than PDF Select General input directory to read XMP metadata files from the same directory as the input files for compression Alternatively choose Directory and specify a different source directory Under File name template you can specify a template to derive the name of each XMP metadata input file from the name of the corresponding input file for compression See Template String Syntax Description p 59 for more information on template syntax Enable Copy XMP Page metadata to copy XMP metadata embedded in TIFF files to the metadata associated to the resulting PDF page Add list of input files may be selected to add the full path of every input file to a list in the XMP document metadata Bookmark Embedding Options al Embed PDF bookmar
120. tems for various further business processes LuraTech PDF Compressor can generate PDF files for different requirements e g without using newer PDF features in order to be compatible to Adobe Reader 5 0 or other older viewers or archivable documents that meet the PDF A standard PDF A 1 PDF A 2 PDF A 3 LuraTech PDF Compressor Enterprise offers the following features e Scalable high quality compression of color document images e Applying OCR to create full text searchable PDFs from scanned pages e Conversion from PDF to PDF A e Optimization of images or scanned pages inside existing PDF documents e Merging splitting and renaming of documents e 1D and 2D Barcode recognition and splitting renaming and PDF bookmark creation by barcode e Combining digital documents with scanned pages e g appending certificates and credentials to an online application e Unified conversion of digitally created and scanned documents to PDF A for long term archiving e Automatic input ingestion from watched input folders e Time triggered starting and stopping of jobs e Fully automated processing in Job List Processing mode www luratech com info luratech com Introduction 4 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 2 Installation Run the self extracting installer and follow the installer instructions The installer should be named LT_PDFCE_Setup_ lt xXX gt _v lt N N NN NNN gt exe where xXX corresponds to the system architecture ei
121. the Horizontal and Vertical position to place the image at any edge any corner or at the center of the page 4 Set the Horizontal and Vertical Border to specify the distance between the image and the page s edges 5 Set the Maximum width and height of the image Keeping the aspect ratio of the original image the image will be scaled to fit into a box of the given maximum width and height 6 Image dimensions and border length can be set in absolute Measurement units select mm or as a percentage of the page s dimensions Horizontal border and maximum width as a 1 The text edit window accepts file drag amp drop Just drag amp drop an image file from the Windows Explorer into this window www luratech com info luratech com Setting up Job Entries 52 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual percentage of the page width vertical border and maximum height as a percentage of the page height 7 If the watermark image has high resolution but is added with reduced size then this may cause unnecessary overhead and larger output file sizes than necessary If the watermark image is larger than necessary then it is best to reduce its resolution by selecting Scale image with an appropriate dpi value Example ogo tif is a 4 by 2 inch image in 300 dpi 1200 x 600 pixels It is added to the output pages at a size of 1 x 0 5 inch The resulting effective resolution would be 4 x 300 1200 dpi You should set Scale image to 75 dpi t
122. ther x86 or x64 and N N NN NNN corresponds to the product s version number e g 7 0 0 156 Note You need Administrator rights to install LuraTech PDF Compressor System Requirements Windows 32 Bit or 64 Bit Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Server 2008 Server 2012 CPU Intel AMD or compatible x86 or x64 processors single core and multi core processors supported CPU Speed Minimum 1 GHz 2 GHz or more recommended RAM Minimum 1 GB per licensed processor core 2 GB per core recommended more than 2 GB for conversion of very large documents on 64 bit systems Disk space required for installation 1 GB Microsoft NET Framework 4 0 Note These are minimum installation requirements Required resources for production environments should be clarified with LuraTech Requirements of the Born Digital Conversion Option In addition to the general system requirements the following conditions must be met for Born Digital document conversion of the PDF Compressor Enterprise standard version To convert PDF to PDF A no preparations are necessary For successful conversion of other born digital file formats the following conditions must be met 1 The necessary office applications have to be installed e For conversion of Microsoft Office Documents the appropriate components of Office 2007 or higher must be installed such that all Office document types submitted to conversion can be opened Ensure that the Microsoft
123. tion damages for loss of business profits business interruption loss of business information or any other pecuniary loss resulting from the use of ABBYY SDK or damages caused by possible errors or misprints in the ABBYY SDK Export Rules If purchased in the United States the ABBYY SDK shall not be exported or re exported in violation of any export provisions of the United States or any other applicable legislation If any part of the EULA is found void and unenforceable it will not affect the validity of the balance of the EULA which shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms The EULA shall not prejudice the statutory rights of any party dealing as a consumer 10 Duration The agreement runs for an indefinite time The right of the license holder to use the LuraTech software Products are terminated automatically without notice from LuraTech if the licensee fails www luratech com info luratech com License Agreement 90 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual to comply with any term s of this license On termination of the license the license holder is obliged destroy the original version of the product together with any copies and documentation 11 Warranty The license issuer gives a warranty only in within the scope of the law The LuraTech Software Products are under warranty for twelve months from the date of delivery The warranty covers only product redelivery or product improvement If these remedies are
124. ts are read from simple text files that can be created by external applications Please refer to Job List File Syntax p 69 for a description of the syntax Together with corresponding control files this enables PDF Compressor to integrate with many different workflows After a list has been loaded all its entries are automatically started As soon as an entry has been finished and is shown as stopped it is removed from the list The next job list is loaded when at least one processor core becomes idle and there are no jobs left waiting to get processed so jobs of different lists can be processed in parallel This ensures that all available processor cores run at full capacity as far as possible Please find more details on scheduling priorities in the section Job List File Priorities p 69 The automatic job list processing is started by the menu File gt Start Automatic Processing gt Start Job List Processing or the toolbar button Use the menu File gt Stop Job List Processing or the button to leave the job list processing mode Job list processing is indicated by a yellow background color of the list window This color reminds you that in this mode almost all operations on job lists are prohibited You cannot add or delete entries nor can you edit any property of an entry It is the PDF Compressor service that loads processes and unloads the job lists T LuraTech PDF Compressor File Entry View Help ig Status Pronty T
125. tting The template F V V PREFIX 02P 02L outputs for a document MyFile tif with barcodes Chapter 1 on page 3 and Chapter 2 on page 7 the following chunks MyFile PREFIX 01 02 pdf MyFile Chapter 1 03 06 pdf MyFile Chapter 2 07 10 pdf Regular Expression Substitution The regular expression substitution syntax is defined by lt input gt lt regexp gt lt replacement gt lt input gt identifies the input string the regular expression substitution is applied to F Input file or directory name File name for single file input processing directory name when merging files from a directory into a single PDF output file The file name is printed without file extension for PDF metadata input file renaming and output file renaming lt regexp gt is the regular expression It implements the commonly used syntax for regular expressions defined as follows A regular expression is zero or more branches separated by It matches anything that matches one of the branches A branch is zero or more pieces concatenated It matches a match for the first followed by a match for the second etc A piece is an atom possibly followed by or An atom followed by matches a sequence of 0 or more matches of the atom An atom followed by matches a sequence of 1 or more matches of the atom An atom followed by matches a match of the atom or the null st
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127. updates lf your computer is connected to the Internet you can perform an online check for the availability of PDF Compressor updates Use the Help gt Check for Updates menu to display the installed and the most recent version of PDF Compressor Click Browse Release History to view a list of release notes If you like to get an updated version please contact support Iluratech com The File gt Options menu lets you configure to Check for updates automatically once a month If this function is enabled PDF Compressor will contact the LuraTech server once a month to get update information If a newer version is available an Update Information dialog box will show up Job List Processing See Automatic Job List Processing p 68 for further details regarding job list processing In the Options dialog you can configure the job list processing input folder where PDF Compressor picks up the job lists to process You can set the polling interval that applies when PDF Compressor runs out of job lists It then waits the specified amount of time before checking again for job lists ready to go The value O zero is valid and tells PDF Compressor to use the minimal possible waiting time approx 500 milliseconds PDF Compressor can collect all log messages that apply to jobs of the same job list and write these messages to the associated job list control file Write additional log messages in job list control files Priority Proc
128. used Here we describe only administration using the using the PDF Compressor GUI www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 80 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual The administration of a Windows service needs special rights Make sure that you have administrative privileges when running the GUI to manage the PDF Compressor service This is the only place where the GUI needs this kind of access rights All other functionality also works when you log in from an ordinary user account PDF Compressor Service Local System account This account Password Max number of processor cores to use Show status in task bar Check process memory and restart automatically Choosing the Service Account The title of the PDF Compressor Service section of the Options dialog shows the current status of the service normally running and the current service account Local System after installation The power of PDF Compressor lies in its ability to do automatic PDF conversions even if no user is logged in This also enables PDF Compressor to do conversions on remote computers by use of network shares The default service account LocalSystem typically does not have the right to access files on remote machines of a Windows domain You can change the service account by use of the Options dialog When you select a new account make sure that it has access to e the PDF Compressor installation directory e the i
129. vice p 80 Does a message box tell you that the service has not the rights mentioned above Change the service s account as described under Choosing the Service Account p 81 or the access rights of the installation directory to meet the above requirements Please send a license request file to support luratech com see Managing Licenses p 77 A job configured for It can happen that a born digital conversion process gets stuck converting born digital see Born Digital Options p 82 If you are in the described input e g Microsoft situation but did not configure an applicable timeout in advance Office documents you can do this right away does not finish and Within the Options dialog change the Max conversion time to there is no processing e g 600 seconds 10 minutes The new value will be evaluated noticeable for a long instantly and the cleaning up and restarting process is initiated time Please note that this process may take a considerable amount of time www luratech com info luratech com Troubleshooting 87 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual 12 License Agreement LuraTech Software License PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT LICENSE CAREFULLY THE LURATECH SOFTWARE PRODUCT INCLUDES COMPUTER SOFTWARE AS WELL AS ACCOMPANYING PRINTED MATERIAL AND ONLINE OR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION BY INSTALLING COPYING OR USING THE LURATECH SOFTWARE PRODUCT IN ANY WAY YOU ARE AGREEING
130. www luratech com info luratech com Luralech Document Processing Solutions PDF Compressor Enterprise Manual Version 7 3 USA UK LuraTech Inc LuraTech Ltd PMB 708 Swatton Barn 270 Redwood Shores Parkway Bradbury Swindon Redwood City CA 94065 Wiltshire SN4 QEU USA United Kingdom 1 650 481 8156 44 1793 384046 1 650 779 4644 F 44 1793 384104 F Germany LuraTech Europe GmbH Neue Kantstr 14 14057 Berlin Germany 49 0 30 39 4050 0 49 0 30 39 40 50 99 F LuraTech Europe GmbH Willy Brandt Platz 1 42853 Remscheid Germany 49 0 2191 589 60 0 49 0 2191 589 60 29 F PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual Table of Contents L WEP OGUUCTION ap sonsosaneseessnnwenss suns E 4 Zs WASCANAUIOW are EE 5 SY Se SUN NES rates esa tate Seen E A T S ET dene 5 Requirements of the Born Digital Conversion Option cccccceseccccessecceeeseceeseeeceeeeueeeeeaeeeeeeas 5 ITO REGIE CU IAS susirna a ETE cases EEE TE 6 Service Requirements for CB cece sarees cece seca ancestries onc cote sesiane seceennege tenes ant 6 3 Concept of PDF COMPressor cccsccssccssscnnsconsconsconsconsccnnsonsscnnccanscanscss 7 Graphical User IMEr cl canara On na ee re 7 PIE COMDES SON SENICE cassaire E E teat aapoaceoouatonanse Roemnuannonkes 8 Pomm Diera CONO ON E E 8 4 19 gas g 0 ene eee 10 oS CL goa TRECU NR ee ev A A T ae eee 10 Aane al geal eS 0 a1 69 lt n Bc Aan ene ee ce ee ee r
131. year You have to order the license by e mail This is done as follows 1 Use the Request license button so save a license request file Use for example the file name request txt 2 Send the file request txt via e mail to license luratech com 3 We reply by sending a license file icense txt 4 Use the Import License button to open the file license txt After that you will see the number of remaining pages which can be unlimited and the license Capacity within the Options dialog For a limited license the number of remaining pages will decrease when you generate PDF output When it reaches zero you have to order a new license www luratech com info luratech com Administration and Licensing 78 PDF Compresor Enterprise Manual by redoing steps 1 to 4 as shown above PDF Compressor will not fall back into evaluation mode once your license is empty It will just stop creating further PDF output A corresponding message will be displayed and written into the log file This is to prevent you from generating PDF output with visible watermark by accident Depending on your license Server Basic or Advanced an activation of the OCR engine s license may be necessary If an activation is required a corresponding dialog box will pop up once you have imported the PDF Compressor s license Please follow the given instructions for OCR activation The activation can be performed online recommended method internet connection require

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