Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

text hooker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables: tex-t hook-er
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels."
"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."
"AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) is a tool for capturing text from running programs."

Inflected Forms

text hookers (plural) texthooker (alternative)

Synonyms

text hook

Questions

What does text hooker mean?: 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.

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