Best Practices using Screen Scraping for old fashion windows apps

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Hello There,

Can someone share best practices when it comes to “type into” or “get text” from old GUI windows app (written in NatStar C++ a look like PowerBuilder IDE).

Actually, “selectors” don’t work, so I used “Get visible text”. it work fine for simple text area but not for check boxes or radio buttons where I used a workaround “Get OCR text”. The third issue I’m facing is how can I deal with tables (for input and getting texts/values) in such context.

Maybe I’m missing something here that can be more straightforward or a better good practice than what I using as “Get OCR text” will slow down the process.

Thanks for your feedback.

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@albel,

Have you tried with Computer Vision activities ?

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Hi,
you can have a anchor base activity and get the text relative to a anchor,
Let us know if this helps.
Regards,
Pavan H

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Indeed @lakshman I used CV activities but doesn’t work as expected for Checkbox and RadioButton. it works for simple text.

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@pavanh003 I’m going to try this. But what about fields in tables where it is repetitive ?