Reading text on a screen

Hey everyone. I'm working on a program that will read the text displayed in another program. When a certain keyword appears in the other program's text, my program will log it. The programs would run on a Windows system.
Unfortuantely I'm not sure how to go about this. My guess is I would have to do some low-level programming and "listen in" to all the draw messages going through the system. In many ways this would resemble the text-to-speech programs used by the blind. However I don't know how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas?
I appreciate any help you all can give me.

taking a screen capture and setting it to a grid seems like a terrible idea.
you can use jpcap to capture packets in java (There are to projects with this same name, that do the same thing, take your pick).
That will work if text your are searching for is transmitted plain-text. Another thing I would do is try to find out where this text is coming from and if there is an api to hook yourself up to it.
This wouldn't be an attempt to detect market news would it?

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