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How to: Scrape the Whole Text, Including Hidden Elements from a Terminal Window

UiPath's Scraping Tool scrapes text in both visible and non-visible UI objects. Using the Native scraping has way more to offer because it can scrape non-visible text. This only works in native Windows application like Windows Command prompt or terminal.

To scrape the full text from a terminal window, follow these simple steps:

Step 1. Click on Screen Scraping button from the Design Menu.

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Step 2. Highlight the full application window. Click on it. Please note that there is more editable text in the opened CMD window.

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Step 3. This will pull up the Screen Scraping window with scraped data. The Native scraping method will automatically be selected. 

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Step 4. This will show all possible text inside the command prompt including the special characters. Hit Continue once done.