How to extract non selectable text in .net software (UIautomation)?

[ptpatil]

I am trying to automate a tool I bought that is a .net windows program, it gives # stats on successful bookmarking site account creations, but the stats output is non selectable, as in its clearly on the screen as text and is constantly changing, but the text itself cannot be accessed by UIautomation as the information is embedded in the element.

Do I have to resort to screen scraping it with OCR? Is there a way I can do it without OCR?

 

[emp]

Screenshot / OCR was my first thought as well.

If you don't have access to the source code and are able to rewrite it, not much luck any other way.

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[ShadowCaster]

You could of course try to peek into the software with Net Reflector if that's a .Net application, but the chances that it isn't protected are slim.

 

[Khalil]

Or you can try to catch the messages which are sent by the tool. What is the name of the software?

However, since the text appears clearly you can try "Tesseract"! - i had nice results with it.