WindowTextExtractor [DotNET text capture]

[AlexanderPro]

https://github.com/AlexanderPro/WindowTextExtractor

WindowTextExtractor allows you to get a text from any window of an operating system including microsoft office programs, console windows and any window with support of Microsoft UI Automation (UIA). It can recover password stored behind asterisks (*****) from most of the windows apps.

Requirements
OS Windows XP SP3 and later. Supports x86 and x64 systems.
.NET Framework 4.0

How to Use
Launch WindowTextExtractor on your system.
Now simply drag the 'Find window' button to get a window text or password.

Limitations
This tool can't work properly with non-windows based applications such as GTK, Flash, QT or applications not using standard edit box for the password. It does not work with HTML pages in the browsers such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.

DL - https://github.com/AlexanderPro/WindowT ... ses/latest (~ 537 KB)

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.6.1, latest changes:

-Added a support to view passwords for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.7.1, latest changes:

-Added a support to extract window images.

[Midas]

Thanks for the update, AlexanderPro.

And please don't assume the lack of feedback means lack of interest in your software -- things tend to move slowly in our little community.

[billon]

On XP - crash on launch:

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EventType : clr20r3     P1 : windowtextextractor.exe     P2 : 1.7.1.0     
P3 : 5ff3ff62     P4 : system.drawing     P5 : 4.0.0.0     P6 : 5073c7ec     
P7 : 456     P8 : 42d     P9 : n3ctrye2kn3c34sgl4zqyrbfte4m13nb

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Exception Information
Code: 0xe0434352	Flags: 0x00000001
Record: 0x0000000000000000	Address: 0x000000007c812fd3

SmartSystemMenu works fine, so looks like not OS or dotNET problem

[AlexanderPro]

Hi billon,

Thanks for finding the error. I have fixed it at version 1.7.2

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.8.1, latest changes:

-Added "Information" tab with detail information about the window and its process.

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.9.0, latest changes:

-More detailed "Information" tab
-Added (Show/Hide) button. Now you can hide any desktop window (Start button, System tray elements, "peek" line, etc.)
-The app can be installed by Chocolatey:

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choco install windowtextextractor

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.13.0, latest changes:

-Added an opportunity to record an image stream in avi file
-Added text list panel which contains all texts for pointer movement

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.15.0, latest changes:

-Added OCR support (including text, bar codes and QR codes) for Windows 10, 11
-Added a tab with environment variables

[AlexanderPro]

WindowTextExtractor at version 1.16.0, latest changes:

-Added cursor details (position, color picker, etc) to the "Information" tab.
-Added "Action" splitbutton with "Hide", "Show", "Minimize", "Maximize", "Restore", "Close" items.