I actually finished this but since I'm still getting the hang of hackaday.io, I won't post all of it here. All of the info is here:
http://ossventure.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-computer-engineering-major-studies.html
in which, screenshot/copy-paste limitation set by an application was bypassed via Tesseract-OCR and automated via a pedal/Arduino combo
Sorry, I need to look for it as I moved around a lot. I'll try to look for it when I have time.
Thanks for the interest!