Create More Value from your Printstreams

Fast, high-fidelity document stream transformation, with support for over twenty formats, including:

- AFP
- DJDE/metacode
- 3211
- PDF
- PostScript®
- XML, and many others.

Platform independence, including z/OS, Windows, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris™, HP-UX, OS X, Linux, AIX, MVS, USS. Stream indexing, sorting, merging and modification with sustained high throughput rates.

With Elixir transformation solutions, you can repurpose your print files without rebuilding your document applications. Convert printstreams into modern formats.

Elixir’s transformation solutions repurpose legacy printstreams for web presentation, archives and for use as data into other applications, converting the printstream into modern formats such as XML, CSV, or indexed PDF for archives, essentially allowing the printstream to become an input file to any other application.

Legacy Printstreams are Meeting Points for Valuable Information
Typically fed by outside sources such as databases, printstreams usually contain information created at the point the printstream itself was formed. And, although extremely efficient for their original printing task, printstreams are not structured enough on their own to be useful in other applications.

Automated Conversions Among a Variety of Formats
Save time with Elixir’s automated service, fully loaded with automation features. Using a “watch directory”, the programs monitor incoming files and automatically begin the conversion process as files arrive.This automated method can convert print files into multiple formats without human intervention.

Advanced Indexing and Sorting Features
Elixir’s transformation solutions provide stream indexing, sorting, and merging. Large legacy files can be split into multiple output files using document boundaries, page counts or occurrence of a form resource.

Save time by eliminating manual data extractions
View a printstream as a composed document, use graphical mark-up tools to indicate areas for data extraction.

Simplify migrations to new print environments
Point to the original resources, choose the format and convert, the file is ready for the new printer immediately.

Product documents directly to the web from your printstreams
Create composed PDFs for the web, avoiding redesign of documents that are currently represented only in printstreams.

Easy conversions to target database or file format
Convert one printstream to multiple formats simultaneously.

Key Features:

Data extraction from floating or fixed positions
Locate text strings anywhere on a page and mine data relative to that string. Reassemble fragmented text into complete words and strings.

Identify unique page types
Focus data extraction to specific page layouts, set mining rules based on page type. If no document structures exists, programs can define and apply mining rules logically.

Capture hidden information
Extract data from non-printing elements such as information encoded in AFP indices, DJDE comment records, and no-op print records.

Refine extracted data
Perform sorting, recursive processing, and string operations such as blank trimming, casing, and substring selection. Deconstruct text into individual components such as address block into city, state, and ZIP.

Split legacy files
Large files can be split into multiple outputs using document boundaries, page counts or occurrence of a form resource as criteria.