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I am trying to write an app that will capture text from a selected area
of the screen to be used as text in another app.

I have had two attempts now...

1st - Used WM_GETTEXT but this wouldnt find the text that was needed as
there was no visible handle to the grid that the text was contained in.

2nd - Used Canvas.CopyRect to copy a selected area of the desktop but
that obviously returns an image - was going to use an ocr component to
read text.

I have tried a piece of software that will do this by "Hooking the
TextOut /ExtTextOut /DrawText APIs" but would like to write the
function into my own software.

Any ideas on hooking these APIs for a selected part of the screen?

Thanks in advance, Gavin