I am interested in developing a program such as the one at
www.pokerinspector.com.  Using their program, you can play online
poker at quite a few sites, and Poker Inspector looks at the graphics
on the screen (process called screen scraping).  It then compares the
seen graphics to known images of the cards, and is able to produce
real-time statistics about the current hand.

These websites have their own program -- they are not ran through a
web browser.  There are many libraries which only screen scrape
webpages.  These won't work for me.

I would like to find a C++ or C# library helping facilitate the screen
scraping, as well as a short tutorial on how to use it.  This has to
run on Windows (there's no *nix poker clients that I know of to the
top sites.)

I will give a $75-$200 tip if you can find such a library designed for
ultimatebet.com that takes care of all the screen scraping and
analyzing the graphic -- and provides an easy to use interface for a
program to simply get which cards are in the hand, who is at the
table, who has bet how much when, etc.  ($200 if the library is free
or under or equal to $500 to license.  $75 if the library is over $500
to license.  If tips of this amount can't happen, I'll post
dummy-questions for the researcher to have the same effect.)  I would
love to avoid programming the analysis of the graphics.

NOTE: There is a program called winholdem that went way too far, and
transformed from a legitimate stats program to an illegitimate
hard-sharing with other users program.  Although this program has nice
ways to hook into the cards, many sites actively look for this running
program and ban users who use it - since it has a collusion ability. 
(The poker sites don't mind stat calculators, as long as there's no
cheating.)

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Clarification of Question by darlingm-ga on 14 Jan 2005 20:54 PST

Forgot to mention, I have tried working with a library called "TheEye"
and got nowhere with it, so I need to exclude this as an answer.

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Clarification of Question by darlingm-ga on 16 Jan 2005 12:21 PST

In case there isn't another good solution out there, I have posted
another question, #458182 regarding the library "TheEye" I mentioned I
couldn't get anywhere with - and exactly where I'm stuck.

I probably should have been more clear, I have actually writtenthe
screen scrape interface and all myself, I am not using a third party
Screen scraper.

This is not quite what you've asked for but may do the trick. It's a
program which reads Ultimatebet hand histories live and writes them to
a file. Probably pretty easy for you to read from there.
http://www.pokertracker.com/ubh.html

You do know that Party Poker and affilliates write hands directly to
your hard disk now don't you? Again, pretty easy to read from there.

rgds

ZB

If you are still interested in a screen scraping library in C# for
poker, let me know by posting a comment or clarification.  I'm writing
one right now for pokerroom.com, but it should be generic enuf to use
with other sites soon.  I'm hoping to automate the entire playing
process.

AC