Reading table from screen

Hi,

I need to continuously read tabular data from a browser into Matlab arrays. Scraping is not an option. I came across an OCR example https://au.mathworks.com/help/vision/examples/automatically-detect-and-recognize-text-in-natural-images.html. Appreciate any tips I can get. E.g. I prefer that Matlab continuously scans the browser window rather than having to screenshot it and saving as image. Also if there are other functions for OCR and how to recognize table rows and columns.

Thank you.

[Image Analyst]

Is the data appearing in the browser text data or image data? That mean, if you do "view source" on the web page, will you see the same numbers there or just a reference to an image?

[Azura Hashim]

Hi, Effectively the data is in an image

[Guillaume]

Wouldn't the time be better spent talking to the owner of the data so it is published in a way that can be parsed?

On top of the OCR problem, you're going to also have to interface matlab with your browser, something it's not particularly designed for.