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text hooker

noun

Definitions

  1. Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the…

    Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in another language.

    • A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.
    • A text hooker, or at least what I'm calling a text hooker, is a program or function that hijacks the text output of a game (in realtime) and outputs somewhere else so that you can copy/paste or whatever you want with it.
    • AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) is a tool for capturing text from running programs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for text hooker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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