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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text scraping: instructions

« on: April 16, 2007, 05:12 PM »

The one program i know of which is really good at capturing text in such complicated cases is a shareware program called Kleptomania: http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/

Thanks for the suggestion.  Looking at their offering gave me an idea for solving my immediate need:  I took the Explorer image file from SC and fed it to my OmniPage OCR app, which gave me back an editable text file (sans some formatting).  Crude, but it did the job...

RE SnagIt:  Looks like a great app, but perhaps a bit of overkill for most of what I need from a capture program.  If complex text scraping was only a little easier in SC... (but you've heard this already!)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text scraping: instructions

« on: April 15, 2007, 02:15 PM »

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but my noob question is the same as the original poster's:  I'm trying to capture editable text from a Windows Explorer screen which scrolls in both the X and Y directions.  Launching SC (v2.32.01) from the tray with "Grab windows Object or Scrolling window," I can get a perfect .PNG capture of the full contents using Red Box, but I never see a text preview ("Capture Text to Clipboard" on Red Box's menu is always grayed-out) and I can't get any text to copy (ctrl+t doesn't seem to do anything) to the Clipboard.

Any help would be much appreciated!