Textractor/README.md

# Textractor

![How it looks](screenshot.png)

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**Textractor** (a.k.a. NextHooker) is an open-source x86/x64 video game text hooker for Windows/Wine based off of [ITHVNR](https://web.archive.org/web/20160202084144/http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/438331-ITHVNR-ITH-with-the-VNR-engine).<br>
Watch the [tutorial video](https://tinyurl.com/textractor-tutorial) for a quick rundown on using it.

## Download

Official stable releases of Textractor can be found [here](https://github.com/Artikash/Textractor/releases).<br>
The last release of ITHVNR can be found [here](https://drive.google.com/open?id=13aHF4uIXWn-3YML_k2YCDWhtGgn5-tnO).<br>
Experimental builds of Textractor (with debug info) from the latest source can be found [here](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Artikash/textractor/history) in the 'Artifacts' section of each job.<br>
Try running vcredist if you get an error when starting Textractor or if nothing happens when you try attaching to a game.

## Features

- Highly extensible and customizable
- Auto hook many game engines (including some not supported by VNR!)
- Hook text using /H "hook" codes (most AGTH codes supported)
- Automatically search for possible hook codes

## Support

Please let me know of any bugs, games that Textractor has trouble hooking, feature requests, or other suggestions.<br>
If you have trouble hooking a game, give me a place where I can freely download it, or gift it to me on [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198097566313/).

## Extensions

See my [Example Extension project](https://github.com/Artikash/ExampleExtension) to see how to build an extension.<br>
See the extensions folder for examples of what extensions can do. 

## Contributing

All contributions are appreciated! Please email me at akashmozumdar@gmail.com if you have any questions about the codebase.<br>
You should use the standard process of making a pull request (fork, branch, commit changes, make PR from your branch to my master).<br>
Contributing a translation is easy: just translate the strings in text.cpp as well as this README and the subtitles of the tutorial video.

## Compiling
Before compiling Textractor, you need Qt version 5.13 and Visual Studio with CMake support.
Clone Textractor's source and initialize submodules with `git clone https://github.com/Artikash/Textractor.git` and `git submodule update --init`.
You should then be able to just open the source folder in Visual Studio and build.

## Project Architecture

The host (see GUI/host folder) injects texthook.dll (created from the texthook folder) into the target process and connects to it via 2 pipe files.<br>
Host writes to hostPipe, texthook writes to hookPipe.<br>
texthook waits for the pipe to be connected, then injects a few instructions into any text outputting functions (e.g. TextOut, GetGlyphOutline) that cause their input to be sent through the pipe.<br>
Additional information about hooks is exchanged via shared memory.<br>
The text that the host receives through the pipe is then processed a little before being dispatched back to the GUI.<br>
Finally, the GUI dispatches the text to extensions before displaying it.

## [Developers](CREDITS.md)