Automating a Data Extraction Process

[Ofnuts]

Click an "OK" button by program can be hard. When you are a program you don't really know where some other program's buttons are. If the program uses the standard widgets that can work, but some programs (especially those that have implementations for different OSes) don't.

Several years ago, I read a blog in which the author related that during a mission in some south-american administration he found a guy whose only job was to:

1. open a directory in the file explorer
   
2. take a screenshot
   
3. save the screen shot as an image file
   
4. open that file in an OCR program
   
5. save the result (or append it to the existing list if he was scrolling down the directory)
   

Being helpful, he showed the guy that he could do the same with dir *.* >files.txt but the guy made it clear that if he didn't want to lose his job...

So, when asking a computer person, come with your raw problem, because the solution you would come up with may not be the most efficient/easy one.