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OCR = Optical Character Reading Hello all, I am theory crafting here for now and all help is appreciated First of all I would like to remind everyone that i am not a skilled programmer and I am even a slow and poor learner. so if you explain me something please make sure I can understand, I would really be thankful for that. 1. I have a program that allowed browse through a digital online brochure / stock and It always used to work perfectly with pixelchecksum() conversion to database and I got what I wanted but things have changed negatively for me. They Have changed the look of the digital brochure. 1. They have made fonts more transparent 2. They have made the font much much smaller often letters are 7pixels high and 5 pixels width for example the letter Afflicted looks like this; keep in mind that this is 1600% increased this image is originally 84x9 pix which is very small 3. They have added a pesky background which messes my autoit Pixelchecksum beyond useable So my while project / Program is halted to a stop and I already spend more then 1000 hrs in it I have to change my program I have done some decent analyzing on the screenshots / digital brochure and came to a conclusion that there is always enough RGB Difference between my font and background So it seems I need to proper filter it, Train it ( i do not mind spending lotsa time into it) My goal is to able to read text as quick as possible , therefor I am looking into my own personal lightweight OCR I would like it to able to read a page of 50 items of lets say average of 30/35 words each line and my goal is to achieve this under 500MS but i would not weep if it would take 1000 ms speed is very important to me, What would be best approach? making / creating a seperate .DLL or Exe for OCR and if I make a seperate exe or .DLL how does it transfer the information instantly between .exe (or is that impossible) it would be best for me that my autoit.exe does not waist time on trying to OCR, my autoit already; -------------------------------------------------------------------- handles onscreen actions (mousemovement), other calculations , Writing and retrieving to database, and interaction with a different program ------------------------------------------------------------------- for example my theory is as follow I make an extra ocr.exe or ocr.dll which either prepares out of itself the data upfront or does it when it is asked (having the ability on the fly and change it when needed during the process would be extremely nice because I can switch between speed and saving Resources if needed) question 1 = I am not sure yet how this can be transferred between ? 1. does it need to written in text file , 2. can it be saved in physical memory 3. does the ocr. saves itself in some array and gives it out on request from my autoit.exe Thank you for reading, I will show in a few hrs my theory how to basic program it for speedyness