# Artikash/Textractor

Extracts text from video games and visual novels. Highly extensible.

Repository: https://github.com/Artikash/Textractor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/textractor
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: reverse-engineering, hacking, cpp, games
Last push: 2024-03-15T23:55:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3027, "days_push": 901, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2680, forks 237 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:09.988073+00:00)

## What it is
Textractor is an open-source x86/x64 text hooker for Windows that extracts text from video games and visual novels by injecting into text outputting functions. It is highly extensible via a plugin/extension system and supports automatic hooking of many game engines.

## Use cases
- extract text from visual novels for translation
- hook game text output on Windows
- capture dialogue from Japanese games to feed into a translator
- read in-game text from games with no accessibility support
- build custom extensions to process hooked game text

## When to choose
- you play visual novels or games on Windows and want live text extraction
- you need a highly extensible text hooker with extension support
- you want automatic hooking of many game engines without manual hook codes

## When to avoid
- you need text extraction on Linux/macOS natively (only Wine is supported)
- you want a general-purpose screen OCR tool rather than runtime text hooking
- your target is a 64-bit-only modern engine that resists injection

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: reverse-engineering, nlp, plugin-system, developer-tools
- domain: gaming-tools, reverse-engineering
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: text-hooker, visual-novels, game-text-extraction, machine-translation-helper, hook-injection, localization

## Member repositories
- Artikash/Textractor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.988073+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:17:56.056601+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Artikash/Textractor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.988073+00:00, sha 8f8d0d77bed5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.