Screen Scraping Software Automation for The Desktop Applications
Demand for the screen scraping software automation stays with us from the days when only a small number of the software solutions were designed with possible integrations in mind. Legacy enterprise solutions often do not provide a quick and reliable native way of data transfer.
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Modern enterprises require a wide variety of business applications to support their operations (ERP, CRM, HRMS apps like SAP or Microsoft Dynamics). When deciding what application/product to use all the current business needs are taken into consideration. However, businesses change over time and so too do their needs. So at some point, the chosen application no longer supports all the company’s needs. When this happens, there are a few options:
- Extend the current application so it supports all the current needs of the business. This option is available if an application has some extensibility possibilities via API or custom modules or something else. But this is not always the case, and if not, then there are only the next two other options available.
- Implement a helper application that will extract and manipulate data in your current application and support new usage scenarios. This is the easiest option as well as the most cost and time-effective.
- Migrate to the entirely new system. This scenario means all the data will have to be shifted across to a new system. Unfortunately, transferring across isn’t always easily achieved if there aren’t existing APIs to support the transfer.
Luckily even if an application does not offer any good APIs for scraping screen data (mostly it is screen scraping software for capturing the text) there are still some options available.
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- System APIs Interception
- Custom Mirror Driver or Accessibility Driver
- Using Standard APIs
- Browser Extensions/Plugins for the Screen Scraping
- Java Applications
- Screen Scraping Software Use Case
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What’s your experience with the approaches to text scraping mentioned in this article? What challenges did you met during the data transfer from the applications that do not provide API? Just leave your thought in the comment section below and let’s start the discussion!
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