Re: Word Capture
"swapnil" <shahswapnil963@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I dont think its not possible. because I have seen some tools which
capture word under mouse without using OCR .
There must be some way to capture but i am not able to figure it out.
Looking for good response.
Thanks.
How do you know they're not using OCR?
You can use API hooking to capture those app's use of DrawText(Ex),
ExtTextOut, TextOut, etc. but those API's also setup the device context they
draw to, and you would also have to hook those API's so that you can relate
the device context coordintes used in the above API's to the pixel
cordinates under the mouse. It can be done, but it is very difficult do
correctly for all apps.
I would first check if the app uses the Active Accessiblity API's and if so,
use those to directly ask the app what is their text at a certain screen
location. But very few apps support Active Accessibility; the big, popular
ones do though and maybe that's enough for you.
-- David
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