Screen text capture

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Marcob

Is there any component out there to capture screen text from a specific
region on any active external application form.

Thanks

Marco
 
* "Marcob said:
Is there any component out there to capture screen text from a specific
region on any active external application form.
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In the simplest cases:

You can get text text of the control under the mouse pointer by
p/invoke:

'GetCursorPos'
'GetClassName'
'SendMessage'
'WM_GETTEXT'
'WM_GETTEXTLENGTH'
'WindowFromPoint'

A more general solution would include OCR on a screenshot, but I doubt
that this is easy to implement.
 
Thank you.

What I am looking is capture text on a screen that is NOT part of the
current application. Simple scenario would be. Click on F-12 and a
portion(starty,startx,endy,endx) of the screen (that has always the text
"ACCOUNTING APPLICATION" on the header) would be captured.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Marco
 
Check Aqua deskperience - a capture text and search from desktop app(
http://www.deskperience.com ). I used it a lot for capturing text not
available for copy/paste. They might have a library for doing this.
 
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