2.80:Render (Activity)

The Render activity normalizes electronic document content from file formats Grooper cannot read innately (such as .docx Word documents and .xlsx Excel documents) to a PDF format. This allows Grooper to extract the text via the Recognize activity.

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Render effectively "prints" the document as a PDF file, outputing a PDF document containing a scanned image of that document and any native text data. This is done using the Grooper Render Printer. In order to do this, four conditions must be met:

1. The Grooper Render Printer must be installed on the machine running the Render activity.
2. The Grooper Render Printer must be set as the default printer under for the user account running the Render activity.
3. The native application for the file type must be installed on the machine running the Render activity. For example, Word must be installed in order for Render to render .docx files as PDFs.
4. The native application must provide a shell print verb. In other words, when you right click the file in Windows File Explorer, a "Print" option is present.