clawPDF
Developer: Andrew Hess
- Reviews
- 4 / 243
- Downloads
- 186,666
Downloads
Downloads are available on clawPDF’s official website.
clawPDF at a glance
- What it is
- A virtual printer for Windows that creates PDFs, runs OCR on text and prints images
- Made by
- Andrew Hess
- Runs on
- Windows
- Official website
- github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF
- Source code
- github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF
- Alternatives
- PDFCreator, PDF24 Creator and doPDF
Description
clawPDF is an open source virtual printer for Windows that lets you create PDFs, run OCR on text and print images. It is made by Andrew Hess. The source code is available on GitHub.
It works with all major Windows client and server operating systems on x86, x64 and ARM64, including multi-user environments. It can be installed on a print server, so documents can be printed over the network and not just locally. clawPDF is licensed under the AGPL v3.
clawPDF Features
- Prints to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, SVG, PNG, JPEG, TIF and TXT
- Optical character recognition (OCR) of printed text
- Password protection and encryption with up to 256-bit AES
- Easy access to document metadata, which can be removed before sharing
- Scripting interface for automating processes and integrating clawPDF into your own application
- Shared network printing from a print server
