Text capture

There are several softwares that can do just-in-time translation of the text on the screen if these texts are output by Win32 APIs like TextOut etc., my question is that how to get the text on the screen, does Win32 provide some mechanisms that I don't know?

Hi,
I'm not sure how it's done, but I guess the've written their own VIDEO driver, which runs on the existing one. Before the text is drawn it first goes to the video drivers (check if it supports hardware textout) if not, windows draws it self with pixels etc.
The driver tells windows it supports textout, so it will get the TextOut call..

I don't know how to do it, but hope it will help you find the right direction in looking for a sollution...

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