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- From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Grabbing text from Windows
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 07:16:24 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell
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- In article <107.6631T1081T409@academy.bastad.se>, sten@academy.bastad.se (Sten Jansson) writes:
- >Is it possible to find text in windows e.g. from Ibrowse? Then, what
- >structures should one look at?
- >
- Text is rendered in a window, not stored somewhere in a structure.
- The only way to grab text from a window is to check the window's font,
- hope that this font is used when the text was rendered, and perform
- character recognition.
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- Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- Alcatel Telecom Systems
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