I use Screen Print Platinum 4.0 from http://www.softwarelabs.com
It sits in my system tray, and captures images by pressing the [PrtSc] key, and can save the images as any of BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA or TIFF. OCR software can process many of these formats and save as text files. I have the ScreenPrint set to allow me to define a rectangle on the screen that becomes the image, so I can select just what I want and no more. "Robert Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ================================================ 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/
