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Screen OCR Functions

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:59 am

Just a sneak peak at some things in development:

https://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2017/09/19/ ... ns-anyone/
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Post by JRL » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:20 pm

Very cool! This will be the buzz saw in the OCR toolbox.

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Post by Grovkillen » Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:36 pm

Looking forward testing it! :D
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Re: Screen OCR Functions

Post by CyberCitizen » Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:42 pm

Hi Marcus,

Does it work in Windows 7, I just tried it in a VM but had some issues, I will test tomorrow on my Win 10 machine.
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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:19 pm

Yes, works in all versions. Our dev environment is Windows 7 so it *definitely* works there.
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Post by CyberCitizen » Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:36 am

Ok maybe a few issues in the slimmed down VM I use for capturing software, I will have a look / test today.

Thanks for the update, looks handy.
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Re: Screen OCR Functions

Post by CyberCitizen » Mon Oct 09, 2017 1:25 pm

Tested today on Windows 7 and Windows 10, the issue I had was I was trying to capture text from the desktop, both in a VM and physical machine. Works ok in other screens and apps, but trying to capture the names of desktop icons caused it to fail with an error code.
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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Oct 09, 2017 1:56 pm

Odd, what error did you get? I seem to be able to OCR the desktop just fine on both Win 7 and Win 10.
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Post by PepsiHog » Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:25 pm

@Marcus,

Love it! Any idea when you will be releasing it?

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:32 pm

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Post by PepsiHog » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:03 pm

LOL! Have not upgraded yet.

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