fetching text from the screen
Gabriel Genellina
gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Jun 18 19:27:08 EDT 2007
En Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:13:16 -0300, Juergen Kareta <kareta at web.de>
escribió:
> I'm thinking about a python script which fetch some text from the screen
> independent of what application provides the text on the screen. In this
> regard it should be similar to the babylon software: www.babylon.com
>
>
> Here my thoughts:
>
> 1) getting the mouse position
> 2) calculate a adequate rectangle around the mouse position
> 3) fetch the screen content in this rectangle
> 4) use a OCR library to get the text out of 3)
> 5) do something usefull with it.
On Windows, I'd try first using WindowFromPoint to get a window handle,
and the sending it a WM_GETTEXT message. This should work for all windowed
controls that contain text of some kind. I'd use your generic approach
when this doesn't work.
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Gabriel Genellina
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