The Document Reader feature of WintextCom enables you to choose a reader program to display files selected in the WintextCom Library and other circumstances. It is also used to display information that you capture from other applications and snap to the library.

By default, the Document Reader is the built-in WintextCom Reader. If you specify an external program instead, the reading and bookmarking capabilities will depend upon that program, independently of WintextCom.

Some features of WintextCom will always use the WintextCom Reader to display information even if you have specified an external program, but your preferred reader will be used in circumstances where a physical disk file is being opened. You can use the save direct features of WintextCom to create a library file in which to save information from the Windows clipboard or elsewhere and then automatically open the file in the Document Reader, but the features to start reading the information before deciding whether to save or abandon it display the information in the WintextCom Reader. You can, of course still read it in its native application, such as an e-mail message, web page or word processor document, before deciding whether to save it to the library.

The WintextCom Library and its associated reading features provide a generic means of retrieving information from applications programs and saving it to be read in a preferred reading program. You can easily capture the contents of e-mail messages, Internet pages, word processor and editor documents and similar, while advanced users or technical support personnel can use script languages to save and immediately display the output from a scanner or a database report, for example. Suitable programs that can be used with this capability as the reader include the freeware Notepad++ editor and the commercial Semware Editor Professional, both of which provide bookmarking features.

The following sections describe the use and implementation of a personal document reader.

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