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Screen scraping isn't exclusively about using OCR - it more usually means parsing text content from HTML.
by GordonS 5y ago
Screen scraping isn't exclusively about using OCR - it more usually means parsing text content from HTML.
- TameAntelope 5y agoWhat's the "screen" part of this, though? I guess if you have to render the page fully (execute the JS as well), rather than just parse the returned HTML, that to me is more "screen scraping" vs. "scraping".
- GordonS 5y agoNo idea where the name came from!