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Well, unfortunately, you don't need a screen scraper as we normally
think of them...scraping the 5250 data screen...

You want something that reads the Windows screen....that's an
altogether different animal (GUI vs. text based 5250).

The only thing I know of are utilities for the blind...but I don't
know of any that are designed to do anything but send the text to a
speaker or a braille device...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader

It mentions some open source, perhaps you can customize where the text
is output...

The other option would simply be basically what you are doing, getting
a image and running it through a OCR program....


Good luck!
Charles



On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tom Deskevich
<thomas.l.deskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seems like a bad idea to me....I'm assuming the FTP is automated...and
you're going to instead rely on the user manually hitting a hot key
for each screen?  Not to mention that the idea screen scraping gives
me the shudders in any event....

This will just be to strip off the key to the file.  (case number/regent id)
That is all I need to make this happen.

How is the data sent by FTP generated?  Seems like it'd be easier to
simply extract the data more often....you might be able to do actual
"real time"...but once every 5,10 or 15 minutes is probably easier and
just as beneficial.

I agree, but I am at the mercy of the Commonwealth of PA (the keystone
state)
I have asked for a download at the middle of the day, but it never happened.

Our marketing rep would like to see this happen to make our package more
competitive.

Tom Deskevich
Getting into a scrape.


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