text hooker

English

Noun

text hooker (plural text hookers)

  1. (Programming jargon) 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.
    A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.
    • 2005, User Ugly Joe, Zophar's Message Domain
      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
      AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) is a tool for capturing text from running programs.

Alternative forms
  • texthooker, texthook
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