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Reliable web page capture...
johnk:
I keep finding more! Love the hunt when something is found.
-cmpm (July 12, 2008, 10:18 AM)
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cmpm -- glad you're enjoying the thread. However programs such as Webshot, Fireshot and Screenshot Capture are very different from the ones I discussed in the first thread.
Webshot, Fireshot etc just take images of the pages -- screen grabs. They don't actually copy the page contents (i.e. they don't make a copy of the text, images, css files etc from the web server).
Programs such as Local Website Archive and WebResearch Pro actually make full copies of the page content -- the page content is copied on to your hard drive. This is much more useful. You can cut and paste the content, print it properly, edit it and index it (although one or two programs now use OCR to index screen grabs).
cmpm:
Do you mean that the links on the web page image after the grab are clickable?
(i.e. they don't make a copy of the text, images, css files etc from the web server)
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With FireShot they are not. But the image can be saved in different formats.
I really don't think I'm grasping what you are after, cause I haven't followed the other thread.
cmpm:
Perhaps dragging and dropping the icon from the browser to the
database/pim's would work if it's supported
This as close as I could come to something actually with the possibility.
http://www.cancellieri.org/index.htm
ashwken:
John,
I realize that .mht is a MS/IE only format, but what's puzzling about UR's current state is that UR has always had such tight integration with MS products. It would appear that both browsers have a handle on page capture, but I will admit that there have been times when the Save Page As .mht has hung, failing to complete and forced shutdown of the browser is required. Sometimes you can re-launch the browser, try again and it will succeed, other times...
I would imagine that it's no small task to go out and grab all the related bits and pieces that determine how a page is rendered.
johnk:
I would imagine that it's no small task to go out and grab all the related bits and pieces that determine how a page is rendered.
-ashwken (July 12, 2008, 11:55 AM)
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Perhaps. Yet Scrapbook does it perfectly, time after time. As I said above, WebResearch Pro (a commercial program) chooses to use the Scrapbook engine to save web pages, because it's so reliable. Presumably there's nothing to stop Ultra Recall doing the same thing.
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