Hi,
I'm trying to look for a solution to screen scraping in
Java. I've had a look on our dear friend google, but most of my searching leads to Xquery, which I believe only works for HTML pages by sifting through the source code. That doesn't really work for me.
In an ideal world, I would like to create a java application that when invoked (most likely by some button) would identify a region on the screen, pick up some value, and then call a URL or command
The first issues I can see is how can a Java app "scan" the screen. Say for example I have outlook open, I would like this application to find the outlook window, find "inbox" down the list of folders, then "read" that section and find out how many emails I have. It would return something like "Inbox(5)"
I'm reasonably confident that once I have the info scraped, I can deal with it as I please, but my main task is how to find the correct window, and OCR text.
Can anyone give me a heads up on if this is possible? A pointer to a good API would be even better!
Many thanks