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I am working on an application that retrieves a text block from a selected region on any image using a sizeable rectangle. It works perfectly on the Form UI but I wanted to know if there is a way to programmatically render it on the screen outside the form. It sounds silly, but if it can be done it would be better to just extract text from the screen than loading an image every time onto the form.

The component to render outside form

B.Anderson
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    What you can do is create a transparent, border-less form, which covers the entire desktop, and which then acts as parent for your rectangle control. I've done this in the past, but that was a long time ago, and I don't have the details for doing it handy. – 500 - Internal Server Error Jun 19 '20 at 16:05
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    Try [this one](https://stackoverflow.com/a/62433353/7444103), posted the other day. You can use your control on that Form. – Jimi Jun 19 '20 at 16:44
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    You can actually set the Desktop as the parent of a Control (`SetParent([Control].Handle, IntPtr.Zero)`), with transparency, too, but it can get weird :) – Jimi Jun 19 '20 at 16:52

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