Screen scraping with Celers
Screen scraping for data that has no export button
When the data is only on the screen — a legacy app, a remote desktop, a phone app — Celers reads it the way you would: by its text, its position next to a label, or what the screen reader sees.
OCR and anchors
Read a value next to a label, or a whole area of the screen as a table with its columns.
UI Automation first
Where the app exposes its text, Celers reads it exactly instead of guessing from pixels.
Citrix and RDP
Images and OCR work on remote desktops where nothing else can see inside.
Phone screens
Read List scrolls through a list in an Android app and saves every row, links included.
How screen scraping works in Celers
- 1Indicate the area or the field on screen.
- 2Test it to see the values it reads.
- 3Loop over records or pages.
- 4Save to Excel or pass the values to the next step.
Questions
- Is OCR accurate enough?
- For printed screen text, yes; where an app exposes real text through UI Automation, Celers uses that instead.