>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?
If you have MS Office 2003, take a look at MS Office Document Imaging (MODI) it supports automation and has built-in OCR capabilities.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Mspauto/html/ditocOMMap.asp, and you can find a VB example easily converted to VFP here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Mspauto/html/diproText.asp
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