text hooker

English

Alternative forms

• texthooker

Noun

text hooker (plural text hookers)

1. (computing) 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.

   Synonym: text hook

   A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.

   • 2005, User Ugly Joe, Zophar's Message Domain‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2017, User hmoeller, HGames Wiki‎^[2]:

     AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) is a tool for capturing text from running programs.