scraping display to obtain all on-screen text using OCR

[Paul Rubin]

jaepstein_63 at yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) writes:
> I would like to perform a more classical type of "screen scraping"
> than what most people now associate with this term.  I only want to
> find all the text on the current screen, and obtain associated screen
> coordinates.  This probably must be done using OCR. 
> This need only run on Windows.

Usually you do that by intercepting the Windows text painting events,
rather than anything as horrendous as OCR'ing.