Snag-It 5 has text capture options. It takes care of capture, conversion to ASCII, and storage wherever you want it.
At 03:21 PM 2/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Greetings All, > >Thought I'd throw this one out to members of the R>list and see if anyone has a recommendation. > >I need to: >- Capture graphic text (from a terminal emulation program) >- Convert it to ASCII (using some sort of OCR) >- Import it into R:base > >Importing is the easy part... >Getting a static rectangle portion of the graphic screen and converting it to ASCII seems to be >the hurdle! > >I've been told that a technology known as "screen-scraping" was the rage a few years back >(a few DOS years back when screen data was not graphical as in today's world). > >Ideally, I'd like the user to press a hot-key to activate the capture, conversion and storing of the text. >From there, I can trigger an auto-load of the ASCII string into the database. > >Anyone ever done or heard of something like this before?! > >- Rob Vincent ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings All,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thought I'd throw this one out to members of the >R>list and see if anyone has a recommendation.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to:</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Capture graphic text (from a terminal emulation >program)</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Convert it to ASCII (using some sort of >OCR)</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Import it into R:base</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Importing is the easy part... </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Getting a static rectangle portion of the graphic >screen and converting it to ASCII seems to be</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the hurdle!</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been told that a technology known as >"screen-scraping" was the rage a few years back</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(a few DOS years back when screen data was not >graphical as in today's world).</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ideally, I'd like the user to press a hot-key to >activate the capture, conversion and storing of the text.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From there, I can trigger an auto-load of the >ASCII string into the database.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone ever done or heard of something like this >before?!</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Rob Vincent</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
