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Virtual Printer

  • US 20200133604A1
  • Filed: 06/15/2016
  • Published: 04/30/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A virtual printing system for generating a portable document format (PDF) file, wherein the virtual printing system is connected to a user device, and wherein the user device includes a digital document, the virtual printing system comprising:

  • a server that is communicatively coupled to the user device by way of a printer driver for receiving print data and metadata corresponding to the print data, generates the PDF file that includes the print data, wherein the user device includes the printer driver, wherein the user device receives a print command and generates the print data corresponding to the digital document, and wherein the printer driver captures the metadata corresponding to the print data;

    a memory that is connected to the server for receiving and storing the metadata and the PDF file, wherein the metadata and the PDF file are indexed and stored in the memory, and wherein the memory conforms to the Hadoop Distributed File System; and

    a search terminal connected to the memory for accessing the metadata and the PDF file, wherein the search terminal provides a role-based access to the metadata and the PDF file, and wherein at least one of an Apache Solr engine, an Apache Tika engine, and an Apache Lucene engine is used to search for the metadata and the PDF file.

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