Can a Google Cloud Printer send the output to a web service?

Question

I was wondering if google cloud print can be configured to send to a custom web service. I was thinking about sending documents that need to be OCR'd to my web service to process. Can this be done directly with google cloud print?

Answer 1

Yes. You'll essentially create a Google Cloud Print printer, in software. When the new print job arrives (a PDF with metadata) then you do whatever you want to with it.

• The API documentation is very clear
• Some example code (Go) can be found in the official Google Cloud Print CUPS Connector
• More example code (Python) can be found in the Google Cloudprint Proxy
• The GCP Developers mailing list is useful