

There should be a set amount of file types that you explicitly support/deal with. Honestly, I can't tell you the last time I went to send an image to a support system and wasn't told to limit my file to $FileType and $Size.įor the love of Cthulu, this.

Go with a solution that will suffice at least 80% of the time and deal with outliers on an exception basis. It's a ridiculous waste of time and resources to even attempt all things to all people. This is common procedure at this point in the game. Stop it.įix the workflow by telling your customers which file formats your customer service department accepts and flatly reject anything that doesn't come in on those formats. ( I tried to use relative paths above as Joby suggested, but couldn't figure out the root folder.Bryce Katz wrote:You're trying to solve a policy issue with technology.

Select OK on the dialog box for that window and then OK for the one below it.For example: if you saved it to your plugins folder on the Z:\ drive, your directory will look something like z:\portable programs\IrfanView\Plugins\gsdll32.dll or z:\portable programs\IrfanViewPortable\App\IrfanView\Plugins\gsdll32.dll).Enter the full directory location of the DLL file.Choose PostScript Options and click Custom Path.From the menu, select Options - Properties/Settings.In the folder $_OUTDIR\bin\, copy the file gsdll32.dll to a directory of your choice (I saved it to the Plugins directory).Download the 32 or 64-bit EXE (where XXX is the version number: gsXXXw32.exe or gsXXXw64.exe).On the download page, click on the latest version.The program will open a separate Notepad with the text. Draw a box around the text you want from the preview window (there is no "save all").Select dictionary and optional spelling program.From the Options menu, select Start OCR.Set extract folder to your Plugins directory (or App\IrfanView\Plugins for the PA version).Download the self-extracting EXE and launch.So after I installed the "all the plugins" download, I noticed the OCR and PDF functions still weren't available so I set down to try and figure out how to do that.
