is there any way to get text
This may be difficult... Which window/application, which OS? Can you select the text (with the mouse) for cut-n-pasting? If all you can obtain is an image, you'd have to resort to OCR...
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. the OS is Windows XP . I am able to select the text with the mouse manually and paste it.
Actually i captured the window as a screenshot with the help of Imager::screenshot module. Now iam trying to get the text from the screenshot.
Thanks and Regards
Peter...
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Converting the text in a window to an image and then attempting to convert it back to text is a very complicated and error prone way of achieving your goal.
If you can select the text you want to capture with the mouse, then you can obtain that selected text within a perl program very easily using Win32::Clipboard.
If the text you wish to capture is non-selectable, then you might need to look at Win32::GUI::Test and the GetWindowText() method.
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That sounds pretty tricky... You should search CPAN for some of the OLE:: or Win32:: to see if something may select text and/or copy selection to clipboard, for instance Win32::CtrlGUI. From there Win32::Clipboard will allow you to manipulate clipboard content. | [reply] |
Usually, e.g., in my experience, screenshots are images. If this is the case, you'll have to use an OCR application to convert the image to text. I would suggest that you try to capture the actual text, vs the rendered image of the text. How you would do this is dependent on the O/S and application(s) involved; you will have to be forthcoming with much more detail to get any kind of specific help.
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