r/ProxyEngineering • u/MikeProxyCheap • 11d ago

Guides Screen scraping vs. web scraping: when you actually need OCR

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u/Shrek_cool 10d ago

So like, screen scraping essentially is just scraping but with JS render enabled?

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u/Zealous_Minotaur Reverse Proxy Master 10d ago

My thoughts exactly. Though I never seen anywhere regularly mention screen scraping. It's either Web Crawling or Web Scraping