Tesseract

Tesseract PAD Submitter is a tool useful for single software developers or software houses who wants to increase the popularity of their software products and so their sales.

It helps to submit software information to different hundreds of PAD enabled web sites.

What is a PAD file?

PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings. PAD saves time for both authors and webmasters.

How to create your PAD file?

PADGen easily creates Portable Application Descriptions (PAD) files for all your applications. Use PAD to get all of the important information to your vendors and webmasters as quickly and as concisely as possible. With this information long detailed submission forms may soon be a thing of the past! Submitting the PAD file will easily allow webmasters access to all your information.

Download PADGen at following link:

http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/downloads/PADSetup.exe

You can get more information at http://www.asp-shareware.org/

The main window

Tesseract PAD Submitter has a main window where you can manage all your work.

First of all you must have created your PAD file. Then you can fill product information in Tesseract PAD Submitter. To do that click on the "New" button down in thew main window.

The main toolbar

You can manage some of the most important commands with an easy to use tool bar.

These icons let your work faster. For single help information simply pass your mouse over them to show tool tips information.

Submitting your products

To submit your product specification simply double click on the list item in the left window or use right mouse click and choose "Open PAD submit url" menu command.

The web enabled site will be loaded and appear on the right window.

You must select the different input text boxes on the web page and click on the corresponding buttons down in the PAD submitter.

Pay attention to select the appropriate item in the product combo box.

After you have managed your all PAD file information requested by the site in question you can record the appropriate status for the web site in the PAD Submitter.

Right click on the treeview and choose "Status" item; then select "Submitted" or "Published" or whatever is needed depending on your specific submission.

Treeview shows graphically the status you have set with the following schema:

- Red icon for "Not submitted"

- Orange for "Submitted"

- Green icon for "Published"

You can also manage "Old version" flag. That is you already submitted you product to the specific site but fist you released a new version of your product.