Is it possible to fetch data(print jobs) from a printer, filter what data you need and save it that data to my SQL?

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I have a printer which is connected on a network and can be accessible through a server or client. from that printer i want to pull print jobs and filter what i need.
I expect these print jobs to be fetched or pulled as a textfile so that i can save it to a database. i want this whole process to be automated maybe at a specific period( an hour,day or week). I don't know if this can be achieved. Thanks in advance.

What I have tried:

I have tried to fetch this data using Uipath, but Uipath make the whole process manual which is not what i want. I want the pulling of data from the printer to be automated.

Posted 6-Jun-19 23:04pm

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Updated 7-Jun-19 6:10am

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[no name] 7-Jun-19 11:36am

You need to elaborate on what you think a "print job" is. That term means different things to different people. Usually the operating system has some relevance.

Member 14403025 10-Jun-19 2:35am

My bad. I am talking about Documents that come out of a printer.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2019-06-07T06:11:00

Print jobs are almost never queued as text files: they are normally binary data that is very specific to the make and model of printer they are going to. Unless you know exactly what the driver output - and it's going to be proprietary to the manufacturer - you will not be able to get anything usable in terms of data from it. And ... print queues are held on each PC and a network printer will "grab" the data for a single job from one of them when it finishes processing the previous job and can free up it's internal memory.
And if the printer breaks, it's replacement will probably talk a different "language" since the lifetime of a model range is damn short these days ...

It's very unlikely that this will be a good way to do things: I'd start thinking about exactly what you are trying to achieve here, and looking for better alternative approaches.