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Now that MLB 09 The Show offers video replays and pictures, gamers can now build dynamic team pages with screen shots and videos…and maybe now even statistics.

I learned that not only can you take pictures of your favorite plays in MLB 09 but you can also use this feature to take pictures of any of the menus, statistics, or box scores in MLB 09 The Show.

In MLB 07 and MLB 08, I manually copied my RTTS stats by hand and then entered them into HTML format.  There may have been a less tedious way to do this but I was not aware of it.

With MLB 09′s new features, I may have found a better way to compile and display stats online by using an Optical Character Recognition service:

1. To take a picture in MLB 09, just hit the PS button and then go over to the picture sub-menu. There will be an option to capture the screen. Choose this and then then, hit the “X” button. You have now saved a screen capture.

2. Copy the image to your PC and use Microsoft Paint or any other image editor to invert the colors.  Also, crop the area you want to capture.

Batting .167? Good thing I have a 3 year contract with the Giants.

3. Go to http://www.onlineocr.net, upload the image and then convert it to another format such as HTML or text format.

Now you have data to work with to publish to your team pages:

YEAR G AB AVG h r 2b 3b hr rbi
2010 12 34 .206 7 0 0 0 0 0
2009 115 406 .167 68 26 5 0 0 32

Final Output:

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