Overview

This chapter discusses the text sequence grabber channel component and the associated text digitizer components introduced in QuickTime 2.5.

Just as video digitizer components obtain digitized video from an analog video source, text digitizer components obtain text from an external source. A text channel component is a sequence grabber channel component. A text digitizer is a new kind of component. The text channel component uses the services of text digitizer components.

For more information about sequence grabber components, see the chapter "Sequence Grabber Components" in Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Components. For more information about sequence grabber channel components, see the chapter "Sequence Grabber Channel Components" in Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Components.