En Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:13:16 -0300, Juergen Kareta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
