Re: [Chicken-users] OT: Scraping data from Windows app screen

[Steve Graham]

Thank you, Lars.  Good thoughts and I appreciate the links.

Steve

On Sat Sep 17th, 2011 11:54 AM EDT Lars Nilsson wrote:

>If you can figure out the Windows control id/hwnd you could use the
>Windows API to send a WM_GETTEXT command to pick out the text from the
>control, possibly.
>
>Relevant documentation might be
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632627(v=vs.85).aspx
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633520(v=vs.85).aspx
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644928(v=vs.85).aspx
>
>Lars Nilsson
>
>On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Steve Graham <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks, Felix and all who have offered suggestions.  Steve
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Felix <address@hidden>
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>> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 7:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] OT: Scraping data from Windows app screen
>>
>> From: Steve Graham <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] OT: Scraping data from Windows app screen
>> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:55:17 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>> Okay.
>>>
>>> Here's the situation.  A group at work is already entering data into a 
>>> Windows-based application.  Now they are also supposed to be putting in 
>>> much the same data into a 2nd terminal-based app.
>>>
>>> So, I'm thinking there must be a way to pick up the data already entered 
>>> into the first app (i.e. through "scraping" from the 1st app's window) and 
>>> automatically place it into the 2nd app.
>>
>> That would mean you have to OCR the text from the Window-bitmap somehow, 
>> right?
>> That sounds excessively difficult...
>>
>> Perhaps it is possible to hook into the Windows API routine that
>> writes text ("TextOut" ? I can't remember) and try to make something
>> from the input arguments.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> felix
>>
>>
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