I need to convert to a plain text file listing (that could be imported into a word processor, LaTeX or a GUI front end thereto, etc) what appears in the display of Thunderbird as the columns Subject From and Date for an internal activity report that I must write. These columns appear on the end-user GUI display and allow one to then read specific messages by "point and click". As I cannot find a description of the official Thunderbird nomenclature for the various sections of the GUI display, I am using the above descriptions.
I could use a screenshot application, select a rectangular region, save each entity as a PNG image, and then use an OCR application to yield plain text. I would prefer that the screenshot application simply recognizes the text *AS* text, allowing me to copy and paste into a text editor, etc., all running under X wndows. Does anyone know of an application that does this? A brief perusal on the web as well as a quick read of the information on the "default" screenshot applications that come with either MATE or KDE does not seem to reveal a mechanism for this (but rather the PNG or other image, non-text, route).
The normal mechanism I use -- highlight (select), pointing device button (to copy), and then point device button (paste) to capture from say a text HTTP file in a web browser to a word processor application -- does not seem to work for the above "column" portion of the Thunderbird display. This normal mechanism does work if I view source for each message, displaying the SMTP text source and headers in a box, but is very time consuming as the information that I need is available in the "columns" of the basic Thunderbird user interface without having to view the source.
Any assistance is appreciated. Yasha Karant
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