https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169961

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
Actually, Windows has long offered the PowerToy "Text Extractor" applet. Which
has been incorporated into the "Snipping Tool" (<⊞>+<Shift>+S) as a new
snipping mode. It holds the LO app frame open blocking any time out and allows
cursor selection of a screen area holding text of interest.

Unfortunately, it then only performs OCR against the screen text. But fidelity
is really quite good (at least for en-US locale).

Grabbing text of generic tooltip or error message popups is facilitated.

Numerous uses for that text once isolated. Performing QA and providing user
assistance being a common need.

Suggestion here is, rather than depending on OCR of screen grab, to maybe
provide a navigable stack of the recent tooltips LO has activated, with their
*exact localized text* available to select and place on system clipboard.

Expect it could be a SB content panel, or a simple nonmodal dialog. Or
something else, any number of ways to make the specific LO strings available to
user.

Advantage then would be that the exact text LO is placing on the UI could be
made available. No OCR vagaries.

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