Have you tried using TextRecognition instead of OCR? you might find that works better for terminal emulations.
I have used the Text Recogntion feature as well as Extended Text Recognition. In both cases, the Test Complete Object Explorer can NOT identify any objects within the 24 row by 80 column application area of the 3270 emulator screen. All of these object(s) are listed as HIDDEN, not visible objects, by the Test Complete Object Explorer. As a result, it is not possible to select any of these objects and use their object properties to get access to whatever data is shown in those object properties.
Also, I have heard from other sources, that since the text on the 3270 emulation screen in colored (ie. not white text on a black screen but colored text on a black screen), that the OCR recognition will be more difficult to accomplish.
If it was anything else than scraping text from the screen...
... with the emulator you're using, can you change the interface so it is black text on white background?
Yes it is possible to change the colors to white text on a black background, but that still doesn't address the main problems , which are:
1) Text Recognition cannot identify any text since as I stated all the objects are hidden and not visible according to Test Complete's Object Explorer. The color of the text does not matter in this case.
2) The OCR feature is not returning ANY string that represents any part of the 24 row by 80 column application area that I am interested in, no matter what the color composition of this area is.
