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Strange software development problem

Strange software development problem

Strange software development problem

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Maybe someone out there can tell me if this project is even feasible.  

I need to automate user I/O of an interactive web application with another piece of software.  The problem is this dedicated web client is not open.  

To do what I want to do, I will have to use screen capture tools (Leadtools has some good screen capture ActiveX stools, and the company that makes Snagit also has some tools), imaging analysis, and OCR to turn the graphics output into data the the software can respond to.  

Basically, the program I need to write will literally "watch" the dedicated web client application, continuously capturing and image matching various portions of the graphical interface.  This graphical data will thus be changed to discrete data that can then be acted upon.  Then it will take action (ie actively controlling mouse inputs, etc).  

I have seen various demo application, tutorial software tools etc, do the input stuff, and I know the screen capture stuff works, I just need to put it all together.  Is there any reason I could not make this work?

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