Screen Scraping for Modern Applications?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <1150077617.598735.85540 at h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <ljr2600 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern
>computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do
>this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware.
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Oh, no.

Very hard.  Very, very hard.

At least as you've expressed it here, this is an exceptionally
difficult task.  What does "scrape" mean to you?  Do you want
to reproduce the display remotely, or extract text, or some other
possibility?  Does "modern computer" mean Windows to you?