Boris Borcic wrote: > I am trying to use UI Automation to drive an MS Windows app with pywinauto. > > I need to scrape the app's window contents and use some form of OCR to get at > the texts (pywinauto can't get at them). > > As an alternative to integrating an OCR engine, and since I know the fonts and > sizes used to write on the app's windows, I reasoned that I could base a > simple > text recognition module on the capability to drive MSWindows text rendering - > eg > to generate pixmaps of texts I expect to find in the driven app's windows, > exact > to the pixel. > > The advantage of that approach would be exactitude and self-containment. >
But what if the user has font anti-aliasing or, even worse, ClearType turned on? Your screen image won't be pixel-for-pixel accurate. This seems like a very delicate solution to me. I'm surprised you can't get at the window contents. Have you used the spyxx.exe utility to poke through the window structure? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
