You've got the right term.

There are two big ones: romjuice (deprecated) and Cartographer (current). You'll need to be familiar with a command line to make use of either of them, though.

Cartographer's big advantage is that it's designed for use with Atlas, the big name in script insertion. It takes some setting up, but it'll save you a lot of work later when you need to format your dumped script for insertion.

Which SRW are you working on? Are you working on an English translation?

Yes. Cartographer may run from a command line, but it's still a Windows app.

Cartographer comes with a sample command file for FF1 that demonstrates two different ways to extract the same script, as well as a batch file you can run instead of opening a command prompt. Just right-click on Cartographer.bat, select "Edit", and you can modify it in Notepad so that it will extract the script from the ROM using your custom command file. Once you're done, just double-click on Cartographer.bat and it will run the command.

Cartographer requires you to specify a "command file" - the documentation comes with the program and is pretty thorough, and it even includes a sample file showing two different ways to extract the same script. For example, you can define a script block in terms of its actual start and end, or you can specify the start and end of its appropriate pointer block instead. You can even have it insert Atlas-compatible pointers automatically.

No. Cartographer only dumps the script. Atlas only inserts the script.

ok then.

Now one more question. How do I tell it where to use pointers? I know if I tell it the pointers it will insert the script, but how can I avoid messing it up to where the script goes of the screen or has funny characters?