❖Screen scraping usually refers to a legitimate technique used to
translate screen data from one application to another.
❖Screen scraping is sometimes referred to as terminal emulation.
❖The screen scraping application must usually do both of the
following:
❖Capture screen input and pass it on to the legacy application for processing
❖Return data from the application to the user and display it properly on the
user’s screen
❖For example, screen scraper software is available to take the output
from a legacy application running on an IBM mainframe and use it as
input for an application running on aPC.
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