Are you sure the terminal emulator can not have the output redirected to a file? I would look into that first.
I did do an app about 6 years ago where we did an automated screen scrape off of a telnet session, but we wound up with text and not an image. I don't remember what software we used. We were only pulling 1 number off the screen that we fed into the database to pull up a record with. This was for an autodialer. Troy >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >Greetings All, > >Thought I'd throw this one out to members of the R>list and see if anyone has a recommendation. > >I need to: >- Capture graphic text (from a terminal emulation program) >- Convert it to ASCII (using some sort of OCR) >- Import it into R:base > >Importing is the easy part... >Getting a static rectangle portion of the graphic screen and converting it to ASCII seems to be >the hurdle! > >I've been told that a technology known as "screen-scraping" was the rage a few years back >(a few DOS years back when screen data was not graphical as in today's world). > >Ideally, I'd like the user to press a hot-key to activate the capture, conversion and storing of the text. >From there, I can trigger an auto-load of the ASCII string into the database. > >Anyone ever done or heard of something like this before?! > >- Rob Vincent Troy Sosamon Denver Co [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
