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There is some Win OS API call or so that would let one obtain text from the screen
not via obtaining a snapshot and then doing OCR on it, but via API
the idea is to get the text that is under the mouse that the user points to and clicks on.
This is how tools like Babylon (http://www.babylon.com) and 1-Click Answers (http://www.answers.com/main/download_answers_win.jsp) and many others work.
Can someone point me to the right direction to get this functionality?
There is no direct way to obtain text. An application could render text in a zillion different ways (Windows API being one of them), and after it’s rendered – it’s just a bunch of pixels.
A method you could try however is to find the window directly under the mouse and trying to get the text from them. This would work fine on most standard Windows controls (labels, textboxes, etc.) Wouldn’t work on Internet browsers though.
I think the best you can do is make your application such that it supports as many different (common) controls as possible in the above described manner.