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

[Steve Graham]

Thanks, Felix and all who have offered suggestions.  Steve


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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