How to grab text from text-based apps/objects?!?!!? Solution = money!
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Hi everybody, I've asked this question before, and I'M NOW WILLING TO PAY (with PayPal) for a solution that fits my needs because time is not a thing I have in abundance and I need this thing quickly! Here's, from a user point of view, what I want the resulting solution app to do: #### When pressing a modifier key (ctrl for example), clicking (right or left mouse) ANY text-based string in ANY application or object (folder names, titles, list items, etc) in the operating system (win95+), a small window should appear next to the clicked-on text informing the user what text he/she has clicked on. #### Two approaches (as far as I know) are possible: Either you can go the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) way where you actually capture and analyze what the screen pixels look like. An OCR engine is hard to develop yourself and expensive to license or buy. Or you can use the MS Accessibility API to do this... (fairly undocumented but supposed to do the trick). This is an API used for developing apps that for instance can read text on the screen out loud. Anyone with the appropriate knowledge and skills who want to take this on? We can discuss the details more privately when a first contact has been established. Thx everybody and thx for a great forum! /Tommy
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Hi everybody, I've asked this question before, and I'M NOW WILLING TO PAY (with PayPal) for a solution that fits my needs because time is not a thing I have in abundance and I need this thing quickly! Here's, from a user point of view, what I want the resulting solution app to do: #### When pressing a modifier key (ctrl for example), clicking (right or left mouse) ANY text-based string in ANY application or object (folder names, titles, list items, etc) in the operating system (win95+), a small window should appear next to the clicked-on text informing the user what text he/she has clicked on. #### Two approaches (as far as I know) are possible: Either you can go the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) way where you actually capture and analyze what the screen pixels look like. An OCR engine is hard to develop yourself and expensive to license or buy. Or you can use the MS Accessibility API to do this... (fairly undocumented but supposed to do the trick). This is an API used for developing apps that for instance can read text on the screen out loud. Anyone with the appropriate knowledge and skills who want to take this on? We can discuss the details more privately when a first contact has been established. Thx everybody and thx for a great forum! /Tommy