PixelSearch Question...

[lalahahahehe]

ok I know PixelSearch looks for certain colors on the screen, but i was wondering if there is anyway to check the screen for a work rather than a color. Same concept as pixelsearch but can find something like ..

"hello".

and i dont mean that its checking a txt file or something. just if u have a pic of lets say.. someone next to a sign or something with a word on it ( thats readable)

any tips would be great, ty.

[alex OF DEATH]

If this word stays in the same spot and you are just checking if it's there, you could have multiple searches forming to only that word.

Like a search in the letter h then e then l etc etc

[(^_^)]

it might not work depending on what your looking at if ur doing a jpeg or a bmp you wont beable to get the text out unless you have a optical somthing or another reconition program if it is lookin at a text file use

WinGetText or try looking up string in the help file.

[PsaltyDS]

ok I know PixelSearch looks for certain colors on the screen, but i was wondering if there is anyway to check the screen for a work rather than a color. Same concept as pixelsearch but can find something like ..

"hello".

and i dont mean that its checking a txt file or something. just if u have a pic of lets say.. someone next to a sign or something with a word on it ( thats readable)

any tips would be great, ty.

What you're talking about is Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and it can be pretty deep stuff. For instance, the same word may be in different fonts, sizes, bold, italic, underlined, etc. If it's the same word in the same font (in a particular GUI for instance) you might just do a PixelChecksum() on it. But if you want to play OCR, do a search for it in the Scripts and Scraps forum and you find things to think about.