PDF emulation

The PDF emulation allows you to capture data from fully composed documents in a PDF format.

PDF emulation slightly differs from other emulations: with other emulations, data is read either one line at a time or one character at a time, while PDF emulation processes the input data from the PDF file in such a fashion that every PDF page becomes a full data page.

Note: Protected PDF and PDF of versions above 1.7 are not supported by PReS Workflow.

PDF emulation options

The PDF emulation does not have any options - that is, there is nothing to set up when opening a PDF data file.

In the Preferences there is a number of options that affect how words, lines and paragraphs are detected in the PDF when creating data selections. You will find these options when you select Workflow > Preferences > PDF Text Extractor. For more information see PDF text extraction tolerance factors.