JRAPublish ships with three bundled utility applets, called JRAWizard, JRAExtract and JRAService.
You can open JRAExtract from within JRAPublish by using the Launch menu. You can also open JRAExtract by using shortcuts with the JRA Software shortcuts folder or using the desktop shortcut if you elected to create shortcuts during the installation.
JRAExtract Main Screen
Decode PDF and DjVu to Images
JRAExtract will rasterize (convert) each page of source PDF and DjVu documents to image files. You can extract to JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, multipage TIFF and PNG output formats.
Extract Text from PDF and DjVu
With JRAExtract you can extract the full-text from PDF and DjVu files and write this text into external text files. You have the option of saving the text of a multipage document into one text file or into individual text files for each page.
JRAExtract Processing
JRAExtract Processing screen
Clicking the ”To Tray” button will reduce the JRAExtract application to the Windows Tray, to the area where you usually see the current time displayed.
In Windows XP, the JRAExtract application will reduce to the Taskbar Notification Area. The notification area can become crowded with notification icons that appear when certain events occur, such as when you receive e-mail or when you open Task Manager. After a short time, Windows puts the JRAExtract icon and other icons in the background to simplify that area. You can access the icons that have been placed in the background by clicking a button in the notification area. To prevent the JRAExtract icon from being placed in the background, right-click on any free region of the Taskbar Notification Area and select Properties from the menu. In the bottom right corner, click the ”Customize” button. Select ”JRAExtract: processing&ldots;” from the list of programs. If you are currently running a process in JRAExtract and it is minimized to the tray, then you will find the program listed under ”current items”. Otherwise you will find it listed under ”past items” (assuming you previously minimized a JRAExtract process to the tray). In the ”Behavior” column, change the option from ”Hide when inactive” to ”Always show”.
During processing, you can click the Pause button at any time to freeze the processing activity. You may wish to do this if you have other CPU-intensive activities to perform on your PC. When you are ready to resume processing, click the Resume button to continue.
Click the Find button to open the Search Log form and to search the log file even as it is processing.
The Search Log File interface
You can search sequentially forward or backward from your current position in the log file. You can search just for Errors, just for Warning messages, or you can search for specific text.
Running Multiple Instances of JRAExtract
If you are processing in JRAExtract, you can easily open two or more instances of the program on your PC to perform additional tasks. On workstations with multiple CPUs, one CPU will automatically be used for each running instance of JRAExtract.