Comments on: Screen Scrape Text Capture Example http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/01/03/screen-scrape-text-capture-example/ Mostly tips, tutorials, articles and news about Macro Scheduler & Windows Automation Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:53:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marcus Tettmar http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/01/03/screen-scrape-text-capture-example/comment-page-1/#comment-2112 Marcus Tettmar Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:41:57 +0000 http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/01/03/text-capture-example/#comment-2112 The only way to scrape text from an image file would be OCR. Text in an image file is not text as far as windows is concerned. It is just a bunch of pixels. So the only way to convert it to ascii text that a computer can understand is some kind of OCR. Two methods of doing this are described here: http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2007/10/08/screen-ocr-to-retrieve-otherwise-undetectable-text/ And here: http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2006/06/06/screen-ocr-recognising-graphical-text/ The only way to scrape text from an image file would be OCR. Text in an image file is not text as far as windows is concerned. It is just a bunch of pixels. So the only way to convert it to ascii text that a computer can understand is some kind of OCR. Two methods of doing this are described here:
http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2007/10/08/screen-ocr-to-retrieve-otherwise-undetectable-text/

And here:
http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2006/06/06/screen-ocr-recognising-graphical-text/

]]> By: ravi http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/01/03/screen-scrape-text-capture-example/comment-page-1/#comment-2111 ravi Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:12:03 +0000 http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2008/01/03/text-capture-example/#comment-2111 is there any scraping text from image file for select area is there any scraping text from image file for select area

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