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Checklist: Do You Need Textract?

Textract is for you if you confirm all assertions.

You develop software

for MS Windows,

It unites existing systems.

You have to feed text data from a system that cannot interact,

but shows all required info on the screen

using Windows fonts (no PDF, Postscript or faxes).

You can use OCX/VB Control, DLL or EXE from your program

You need one copy or royalties are okay or you may prepay for unlimited use

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Textract SDK

Summary: Textract SDK can feed a new program with text data from an existing application even if this application does not support any communication API, like clipboard copy-paste or OCX/automation. Textract uses OCR technology to capture text from specified windows locations directly from the screen, without interaction with application internals. Textract has OCX and DLL interfaces and console mode EXE and supports Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95/NT4. Free 40 day trial. Released in 1999. Many corporations use Textract in their redistributable software, most of them in the USA.

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Typical Task in Software Development: to feed new software with text data from existing/legacy application.

Recurring Problem: existing/legacy application has no communication API and is impossible, prohibited or expensive to change.

Example 1.Banking: required to drive cash dispenser when teller terminal proposes to dispense money. Dispenser driver has to get customer info (name, account) and dynamic data (dispensing amount) from the teller terminal, which may not support transferring visible text to another program.
Example 2.Medical: required to save/retrieve voice notes and/or dialog with patient with parallel use of existing HIS (Hospital Information System). HIS shows patient data like ID and name, and voice database has to use it for identification and accessing of records. Typical HIS application will not supply other apps with its current state.
Example 3.Quality Assurance in Software Development: newly developed application emits text to the screen. A test program obtains emitted text and its exact location/font without interaction with the application, and then compares this text with expected results. The only clean way is to capture the visible image. But this image is a bitmap, not a text.

Idea and Solution: capture screen image and pass to the OCR that transforms bitmap from video memory into actual text. Textract SDK is specifically designed to recognize texts printed on the screen by Windows text rasterizer.

Compatibility: Supports Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95/NT4, including standard and Clear Type smooth edging of fonts.

Restrictions: Cannot capture/recognize text not emitted by Windows rasterizer, i.e. cannot recognize scanned documents, faxes and PostScript/PDF/Adobe Acrobat fonts.

APIs: Textract supports 3 API standards:
OCX/VB Control: best suitable for Visual Basic and other graphical high level development environments.
DLL: best suitable for C/C++, hardcore and legacy environments, and for languages that is hard to interact through OCX
Console mode EXE: best suitable for perl and other scripting, and to make fast experiments of Textract use.