Extracting text from a Java application

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:31 +0200, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz at oclcpica.org>  
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've bought some kind of Java application, the Spanish Dictionary,
> which was originally written for Linux RedHat. With some tweaking
> of the boot-up script LAXUNIX.SH - LaunchAnywhere (tm) I managed to
> run it as well in FreeBSD 6.x
>
> The Dictionary has on the right part of the screen a list of all
> (official known by The Real Academy) words of the Spanish language
> and it would be nice to have this list as a plain text file to
> integrate is with 'ispell' in FreeBSD. The words are click-able,
> on click the background colour changes and the explanation for the
> word is presented in the right part of the application. I've put
> a screen-shoot to my web space so you will get an idea:
> http://www.unixarea.de/drae.jpg
>
> I'm only interested in the word list of the left side, but I can't
> see any way to get it cut&pasted. I've already investigated a bit
> the X11 traffic to the server and this could be the last option
> to pull the words out... any other idea from the Java gurus?
>
> Thx in advance
>
> 	matthias

If I made such an application I would include a text file with all the  
words. So no need to trick the application to capture X11 traffic.
You can also try the tool strings(1) to extract words from the files in  
the application.

But I thick you should first read the license of the application if the  
creator of the application likes you to do this.

Ronald.


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  Ronald Klop
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