I'm looking for (or to develop) a little piece o

[ndarroch]

I'm looking for (or to develop) a little piece of software to select & copy chosen text from a web page. Input would be by circling the desired text (much like someone would do on paper to highlight) & the desired text selected and copied (to clipboard or some other location for further use).
I had though it may be possible to implement using DHTML but require further research to confirm this.
I'm fairly sure (although I might have dreamt it) I read somewhere that such a piece of software existed but cannot remember where.

Thanks,

Neil.

Edit: I wish to select text from any web page. It will likely be displayed within a frame in my application. I.e. I have no contol over the content of the page I wish to select text from.

PS Hope this all makes sense, I'm not thinking too clearly tonight. I'll try to clarify if required.

[digitaldoc]

I am not sure if I understand you completely, but Pen Office will do what you are requesting if you employ their pen macros. For example, you would highlight the text with your pen and then write the word copy on your screen and draw a circle around the word copy, then you open your target document and write paste and draw a circle around the word paste and the text is inserted. I think a program called StrokeIt will do similar.

[digitaldoc]

I am not sure if I understand you completely, but Pen Office will do what you are requesting if you employ their pen macros. For example, you would highlight the text with your pen and then write the word copy on your screen and draw a circle around the word copy, then you open your target document and write paste and draw a circle around the word paste and the text is inserted. I think a program called StrokeIt will do similar.

[bpjen]

not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it works great- MS Powertoy Snipping Tool for Tablet:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/Tabletpc/Utility/1.0/WXP/EN-US/setup.exe

[bpjen]

not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it works great- MS Powertoy Snipping Tool for Tablet:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/Tabletpc/Utility/1.0/WXP/EN-US/setup.exe

[ndarroch]

I want to be able to highlight the text not in the standard way one would with a mouse (i.e. press button and drag cursor over text) but to get the same result by circling the text with a stroke.
The user could then press a button or draw a gesture and the selected text be copied and put in a new document.

The application (or front end of it) I would like to add this to basically is searching and viewing of web pages (stored locally). The user often will wish to print out pages but more often requires only a selection of the page. Users are also non computer literate so I felt a simple stroke would be a nicer solution.

It is really the circling to select text that I'm unsure about. Maybe I'll have to try and write my own piece of code.

Thanks for the advice on the various pieces of software. I will investigate them further.

Ta,

Neil.

[ndarroch]

I want to be able to highlight the text not in the standard way one would with a mouse (i.e. press button and drag cursor over text) but to get the same result by circling the text with a stroke.
The user could then press a button or draw a gesture and the selected text be copied and put in a new document.

The application (or front end of it) I would like to add this to basically is searching and viewing of web pages (stored locally). The user often will wish to print out pages but more often requires only a selection of the page. Users are also non computer literate so I felt a simple stroke would be a nicer solution.

It is really the circling to select text that I'm unsure about. Maybe I'll have to try and write my own piece of code.

Thanks for the advice on the various pieces of software. I will investigate them further.

Ta,

Neil.

[ndarroch]

I want to be able to highlight the text not in the standard way one would with a mouse (i.e. press button and drag cursor over text) but to get the same result by circling the text with a stroke.
The user could then press a button or draw a gesture and the selected text be copied and put in a new document.

The application (or front end of it) I would like to add this to basically is searching and viewing of web pages (stored locally). The user often will wish to print out pages but more often requires only a selection of the page. Users are also non computer literate so I felt a simple stroke would be a nicer solution.

It is really the circling to select text that I'm unsure about. Maybe I'll have to try and write my own piece of code.

Thanks for the advice on the various pieces of software. I will investigate them further.

Ta,

Neil.

[ndarroch]

I want to be able to highlight the text not in the standard way one would with a mouse (i.e. press button and drag cursor over text) but to get the same result by circling the text with a stroke.
The user could then press a button or draw a gesture and the selected text be copied and put in a new document.

The application (or front end of it) I would like to add this to basically is searching and viewing of web pages (stored locally). The user often will wish to print out pages but more often requires only a selection of the page. Users are also non computer literate so I felt a simple stroke would be a nicer solution.

It is really the circling to select text that I'm unsure about. Maybe I'll have to try and write my own piece of code.

Thanks for the advice on the various pieces of software. I will investigate them further.

Ta,

Neil.

[ndarroch]

I want to be able to highlight the text not in the standard way one would with a mouse (i.e. press button and drag cursor over text) but to get the same result by circling the text with a stroke.
The user could then press a button or draw a gesture and the selected text be copied and put in a new document.

The application (or front end of it) I would like to add this to basically is searching and viewing of web pages (stored locally). The user often will wish to print out pages but more often requires only a selection of the page. Users are also non computer literate so I felt a simple stroke would be a nicer solution.

It is really the circling to select text that I'm unsure about. Maybe I'll have to try and write my own piece of code.

Thanks for the advice on the various pieces of software. I will investigate them further.

Ta,

Neil.

[digitaldoc]

Just a thought but "circling the precise text," unless double spaced, could be problematic with overlap.

[digitaldoc]

Just a thought but "circling the precise text," unless double spaced, could be problematic with overlap.

[digitaldoc]

Just a thought but "circling the precise text," unless double spaced, could be problematic with overlap.

[digitaldoc]

Just a thought but "circling the precise text," unless double spaced, could be problematic with overlap.

[digitaldoc]

Just a thought but "circling the precise text," unless double spaced, could be problematic with overlap.

[ndarroch]

Good point. I had considered this but thought approximation would be good enough as it is more likely paragraphs will be selected than individual sentences.
I think I'll implement it using 'normal' highlighting of text with pen (or mouse) for now.
Thanks for the input.

[ndarroch]

Good point. I had considered this but thought approximation would be good enough as it is more likely paragraphs will be selected than individual sentences.
I think I'll implement it using 'normal' highlighting of text with pen (or mouse) for now.
Thanks for the input.