RedTitan EscapeE
Extract data

This section describes how to extract and manipulate data from documents and data-streams.

▪Notes on using The Field dialog
▪How to set up data fields and tags, adding tagged text and tips on viewing: see Defining fields and tags
▪How to select, enable/disable and delete existing fields and tags; using the Field Definitions dialog to change the location and content of data fields and tags: see Editing fields and tags
▪How to move and resize existing data fields and tags using the mouse and keyboard: see Moving and sizing fields and tags
▪How to set up text or graphics search tags, search criteria and field-end options: see Setting search tag options
▪Specifying when and how a field may be used, forcing 'front' and 'back' pages, overlays, trays and resetting the sheet count; new files, log-files, fields-files and sets: see Setting field actions
▪How to include field names in file or page names, specify when a field may be used, printer options and fixed-pitch export options: see Setting advanced options in field definitions
▪Defining a hierarchy of fields and tags so that some are dependent on the processing of others; combining fields: see Fields list/tree
▪About ".EE" files; setting up and changing EE files: see Field definitions files
▪How to make field values persistent, select an EE file for reuse and set up a banner page; the specialist PJL field prefix feature: see Setting fields file options
▪Troubleshooting common data extraction problems – tags not found, inappropriate symbol sets, unexpected box characters: see Field problems
▪How to make buttons and boxes on PDF forms: see Special fields for PDF export
▪Using command-line options to set up Author, Title, Subject and Keywords for a PDF document: see PDF document summary
▪How to create and edit a TOC for a PDF document: see PDF Table Of Contents
▪Defining the screen view of PDF documents using the command-line: see PDF Viewer preferences
▪Setting up DICOM field names for exporting data to DICOM Element Tags
▪How to include information on the presentation of the data output to XML, e.g. fonts, images and style-sheets: see Outputting to XML
▪About types of field for export to AFP, PDF and XML: see Field TYPE attribute.
▪About EscapeE 'eE' iconEscapeE plugins for document editing: see Using plugins
▪How to attach a plugin to a field: see Calling plugins
▪Editing plugin configuration: see Reconfiguring plugins
▪Using AddText plugin to add or delete text: see AddText plugin
▪About MoveText, AddImage, AddFile, Blankout, BarCodes, BC39Reader, QRCodeReader, DMatrix, Tesseract, Rocr, OCRust, Evaluate and Script plugins: see Other plugins

 

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