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[Petr Ga]

just for curiosity, it can be done via OneNote

Steps:

• Windows+S (activates screen capture), drag region around DF window
• image is now in clipboard
• in onenote press ctrl+v, image is pasted
• in onenote, on image, press right mouse button, select "Copy text from Picture"
• text is now in clipboard
• press Ctrl+v for pasting text anywhere
• you're done!

result:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It is not perfect, but way better correct this than type everything by hand

[Oglokoog]

I've never used OneNote, but doesn't it have some option to add a font to make the text recognition of that font better? I think if it "knew" curses, it would produce much better results.

[Petr Ga]

I've never used OneNote, but doesn't it have some option to add a font to make the text recognition of that font better? I think if it "knew" curses, it would produce much better results.

maybe if I add font into system fonts. is there *.ttf?

onenote is this one sw

[Urist McDepravity]

You can do better with something like FineReader. It is nearly perfect for such cases.

[Jay]

Crop out the title bar and you'll get better results.
Beyond that, it has trouble with the Curses M.

[axus]

Pretty cool!

[zwei]

Modifying tileset to be more easily recognizable is an option too.

[Arkose]

As a more accurate solution, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to hack the SDL port to include a key command for "Take ASCII screenshot".

Or you could use NCurses render mode to play in a unicode-capable terminal and just copy it from there, but if I recall correctly that only works on Unix-type systems at the moment. (Unless someone has already implemented a PDCurses port for Windows?)

[Deon]

Also don't forget that there's gamelog.txt which MIGHT have the text you need.