Copying Text
Feb 17, 2021 12:56:41 #
Most Epson scanners, and many others, come with OCR software that can convert typed text in a scanned photo to text and feed it into MS WORD as text. I've used it and it worked very well.
Feb 17, 2021 15:35:29 #
BigDaddy wrote:
I didn't know windows came with one until recently. I always used Greenshot.exe, a free snipper that has a lot more functions and is really nice. Problem is windows keeps shutting it down so the hot key doesn't work and you have to re-load it every few days. Windows does the same thing to me with FastStone. I set it as my default viewer and windows keeps changing it to something else, randomly. Windows is easy to hate...
With Win-10 holding down the windows key and pressing prtscn copies the entire screen to a folder named "Screenshots" in the pictures folder as a .png file.
Windows key and Shift-S opens the Snip & Sketch application and you can copy parts of the screen.
Ed
Feb 17, 2021 15:59:13 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Occasionally, I want to copy a block of online text, but I can't select it. This morning, I wanted to copy a post on a local bulletin board about a local store that has good products at good prices. I can't highlight the text. So, two questions: How do they prevent users from copying the text, and why would they do that for a local bulletin board? I realize the first question will involve web site construction, so you can ignore that one.
Jerry, take a screen shot with your phone when the stuff you want is showing in your phone's browser. Then you'll have a picture you can look at at the store...
Feb 17, 2021 17:27:50 #
Jerry,
Many web producers encrypt their work as a means of making it "view only" as well as preventing it from being copied or printing from the site. Thus, protecting the text on a web page means protecting the data and information that the web page displays. Such protection can start at the database and a web page can request data as it goes along using SSL or other secure protocols which can protect the data in transmission using encryption.
Using a "screen capture" such as Snippet will create a "picture" of the text area highlighted with the bounding box drawn around it HOWEVER that will simply be a 'picture' of the text and will not be able to be copied and edited as typical text copied can be.
Many web producers encrypt their work as a means of making it "view only" as well as preventing it from being copied or printing from the site. Thus, protecting the text on a web page means protecting the data and information that the web page displays. Such protection can start at the database and a web page can request data as it goes along using SSL or other secure protocols which can protect the data in transmission using encryption.
Using a "screen capture" such as Snippet will create a "picture" of the text area highlighted with the bounding box drawn around it HOWEVER that will simply be a 'picture' of the text and will not be able to be copied and edited as typical text copied can be.
Feb 17, 2021 21:49:28 #
Chances are what you are trying to copy is part of a jpg or image. You can copy the entire image and then crop it to get the part you want.
Feb 17, 2021 23:41:08 #
Sometimes sites use a content manager system (CMS) and that takes info from a database and puts in in a "container" that you can see but not highlight.
Other times it is just hard to select. In that case on a Mac you can hold the option key as you select it and then it works. Maybe on windows that would be the Alt key, but I dunno.
Other times it is just hard to select. In that case on a Mac you can hold the option key as you select it and then it works. Maybe on windows that would be the Alt key, but I dunno.
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