How to capture "Flash Text" from Websites and make it search

DEVONthink Tips
1

I’d like to capture the text information from a news site.
Unfortunately, nowadays the information is partly presented as “flash text” which means that a part of the content is displayed as a flash element with clickable “chapters”.

examples:

  1. heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/12/ … 20,00.html
    (the information about different software programs is displayed as flash)
  2. heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/20/ … 92,00.html

Is there a way to (comfortably) capture all the textual information on such a page for use in DevonThink?
… it seems that saving as web archive also saves the flash content, but it is not searchable.
Saving as PDF (from within DevonThink) makes a “screenshot” only showing the actual display of the pdf (which makes sense), but the shown flash content is not searchable.
Saving as html seems to also save the flash content.

If I try the print-command, the flash element is replaced by an error message.

Kind regards

Martin

2

It seems to be possible to select, copy and paste the text to DEVONthink but that’s definitely not comfortable.

3

That’s correct - especially, as you’d have to copy the heading and the corresponding text separately…
:frowning:

Could there be a more comfortable way in future versions that recognizes this text which obviously exists as readable information but is somehow not accessible?

Martin

4

This text is not accessible via the WebKit framework and there are no plans to use (more or less legal) decompilers for the Adobe Flash format.