>In DOS days I could capture on-screen text by reading "video memory" locations.
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>Does anyone know of a way to accomplish such a feat in a Windows screen? In other words, capture text from a running program (Non-VFP, Non-HTML).
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>I know screen readers can convert windows text to speech, but I don't need the speech, just to be able to capture the text itself from a known screen layout. I will then dump it in data tables.
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>Anyone have any leads on techniques?

Look at my Obj2Bmp application in the download section. It'll create a bitmap for you of the area you select or indicate programmatically. See the documentation for help on how to capture the entire screen from within a application.