Request: Capture text from window or control

[robinsiebler]

There are plenty of commercial programs that have this feature, but it's not something I need often enough to warrant paying for.  If anyone knows of a free for commercial use tool that will work, please let me know!

[robinsiebler]

After about 20 minutes of searching on Google, I found something that worked (at least for the text I needed to capture today) - http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/12/capture-image-and-convert-it-to-text/

[kartal]

I have been looking for a similar software but I have not found anything usefeul, by that I mean something that would work in different conditions. I found that many screen text capture stuff fails. They work in perfect conditions only.

[fenixproductions]

I am using:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html

Some time ago I'd also written small utility with AHK for such purpose but later I found what you can see above.

[PhilB66]

1. To copy text from Windows Error Message... CTRL + C, open text editor and then hit CTRL + V. 

2. See rjbull's post for a few freeware tools to extract text from window controls.

3. More freeware below:

- TextGrabber - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/TextGrabber.shtml

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[electronixtar]

Any tool that can grab XUL, wxWidgets and webkit window texts?