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Luis Alonso Ramos30-Apr-05 15:36
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ekynox wrote:
where would one get a OCR class from ?

I have no idea... maybe searching here you could find some leads.

I believe this is the only practical way of doing it, basically for the following reasons:

* First of all, not all text you see on screen belongs to a control. For example, you can't easily get what's in an IE window because it's drawn by the browser, instead of Label controls (or a rich text box or whatever.) Or images, or toolbar buttons... they are not controls in the Windows way. And what about Word? If I were writing this dictionary, the most important apps to support would be the browser and Word.

* Some controls contain text, and it cannot be selected. You can't select a single word in a ListView or in a TreeView. The caption of a window, a combo box item.

* And finally, you might not know controls that support selection which expose it's text in a different way (other that casting to a Control and getting its Text property.)

With OCR you can get the screen under the mouse (a screen capture program does it.) and identify the text under it, which, since not being handwritten, can be identified with almost 100% of success.

That's my idea, but I don't know I would implement it. I would have to research a bit, specially on the OCR part. That's why I liked it as a project for my spare time.

Good luck!

-- LuisR



Luis Alonso Ramos
Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico

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