Linux Screen Scraper

Craig Brooksby wrote:

> I have already diligently searched google, and now I'm looking for
> recommendations.
>
> Does anyone know of an app for capturing text from screen? (I'm using
> Gnome on RH9). Example: Mozilla provides a very useful display of
> links under View-->Page Info-->Links. But there is no way provided by
> Mozilla to copy and paste, or just "grab" that information (AFAICT). I
> can sort of "select" the rows, but can't seem to copy and paste it.
>
> I want that list of links.

George and Lee have offered some good suggestions but I think they miss
the mark for this case. I have attempted them both with the Mozilla
"View-->Page Info-->Links" screen that Craig is talking about. That
screen does not, appearently, place data on the clipboard by any of the
usual methods. I see three possible solutions for Craig, none of which
are direct solutions:

1-The Mozilla developers add an export function or clipboard support to
this list window. That would be the "real" fix.

2-A "screen OCR" program like Craig refers to is found and functional.
I have not looked for one. Does anybody know of one?

3-A program that parses links out of a given web page be found or
written. I have not looked for this either. Does anybody know of one?
Shouldn't be too hard to write for you perl/awk/web gurus out there.

The selection methods already suggested will not work on this Mozilla
Page Info dialog.

Alan