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Virtual Network PDF printer for Paperless#111

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Test prints show that whilst this works it's pretty useless unless PAPERLESS_OCR_MODE=force, which is not the default (or desired as the default). This seems to be a limitation of cups-pdf's PDF generation, as the Microsoft Print to PDF functionality built into Windows is parsed without issues.

Additionally, the Paperless devs seem uninterested in making OCR reprocessing possible on a single document without changing the global config (see paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx#1466, paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx#10569), so this doesn't seem all that useful for now given that there are alternative options

@exterrestris exterrestris added upstream/dependency Caused by upstream/external dependency investigation Needs further research or testing labels Oct 24, 2025
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exterrestris force-pushed the paperless-ngx-virtual-printer branch from a9c7e5c to b87c6b8 Compare October 31, 2025 10:38
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