Aaron, I found another such OCR package, and it will work with an image file. Isn't there a Windows keystroke which will put an image to the clipboard? If so, what format is it, and could you just write the stream of the clipboard to an image file? thanks. Chip
_____ From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR FYI. If one were to combine the resources below, along with the screen capturing capabilities found at http://www.developerfusion.com/code/4630/capture-a-screen-shot/ (with maybe a pinch of ImageMagick processing), one could have a serious Window-Eyes OCR solution on their hands. Aaron -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:01:40 -0400 From: Aaron Smith <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: GW Micro, Inc. To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] On 9/27/2011 3:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: I like the idea of putting it into a script. OCR through scripting could be done today by anyone with some knowledge and some free time. I have one of those, but not the other. <grin> Here are some starting points: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1762565/python-tesseract-ocr-question http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/ http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pytesser-ocr-for-python.html http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRStandard.aspx Aaron -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team.
