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Geethanjali
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4 years ago
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Extracting Text from iseries (mainframe-green screen) applications

Hello    Has anyone have experience in extracting specific text from Mainframe applications. I have already enabled Text Recognition through which am able to automate entering values. But am strugg...
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    Geethanjali
    4 years ago

    hi  

     

    I have resolved this issue. 

     

    I tried OCR, but that didnot help me much because it provided me a chunk of data from the screen and I felt it really difficult to extract the specific data. Not sure if it had more effective ways 

     

    The solution which worked out for me was 

    Used text recognition in order to recognise the AS400 window. 

    Used key strokes for keying in the data

    used the feature ( Edit - Send to scratch pad) option in AS400 after which I recogonised that scratch pad window to get the details displayed. Since the positions and length are fixed I used relative positioning and length to extract the data. 

    Tried for couple of screens, it has worked.Have to see how it progresses.