a method and apparatus for capturing a video frame and scraping the captured frame for data contained therein is provided . the scraping of the frame extracts data from the frame . a user , while watching television , requests a screen capture function . the video frame is stored in a ( e . g ., advertisement for local store , or frame buffer and further processing is performed to scrape the screen of data contained therein . in one example , text information such as phone numbers , web addresses , etc . can be identified using ocr technology . once extracted , the information can be provided to the user in many different formats for further use or further processing .