Rendering text question (context is MSWin UI Automation)

[imageguy]

> 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.
>
> I've verified manually inside an Idle window, that indeed I could produce
> pixmaps of expected app texts, exact to the pixel (with Tkinter+screen capture
> at least).
>
> I could use help to turn this into a programmable capability, ie : A simple -
> with Tkinter or otherwise - way to wrap access to the MS Windows UI text
> rendering engine, as a function that would return a picture of rendered text,
> given a string, a font, a size and colors ?
>
> And ideally, without interfering with screen contents ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any guidance,
>
> Boris Borcic

I was looking for ( and still am searching for) similiar functionality.
 Specifically I would like to be able to capture a small area of the
screen (a number or a code) and convert this to text that can be used
in my application.

When I asked my question, I was directed to the Microsoft Accessibility
tool kit.
Serach on this list for the post titled;
"Reading text labels from a Win32 window"

I work with wxPython and Win32 applications exclusively.

So if I can be of any help or assistance, please let me know.

Geoff.