Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > 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. > Hi Gabriel,
thanks for your interesting suggestions. I'll try that to figure out, how it works in different situations. Jürgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list