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A method and system to efficiently and automatically determine whether a document to be processed and printed has been encoded in a binary or clear text representation of a page description language. The document is initially processed as if it were binary encoded and the first three tags of the document are examined to determine if they contain the object identifier having the value '28 CF 44 00 H'. If one of the first three tags has this value, an encoding flag is set to indicate the document is a binary SPDL file and the recognition process is terminated. If the document is determined not to be a binary SPDL file it is examined to see if it is clear text SPDL file. The beginning of the document is examined to determine if it contains zero or more S separators which are defined to be spaces, carriage returns, line feeds, and tabs followed by the characters '

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