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Does anyone have any ideas about how to approach this? I will gladly share my software with the forum if I can finish it."
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If you will go to this web site the program does a good job of reading the cards and has a developers pack that passes the information to a C++ which you code as dll file to the main program. The only drawback is he has it fixed to where you must submit the product to him for porting to the main program. He says to keep anyone from writing bots. I would get and understanding as to distribution if I was going to write a good program or how you could use it for personal use if not. PM me when you get it written.
http://pokerpal.buzzworkz.com/plugins.html