Reading Text

[bvr]

Say I want to search for certain words in a window, can autoit find letters or text like it does pixel colors?

[Paulie]

Say I want to search for certain words in a window, can autoit find letters or text like it does pixel colors?

not quite... the only thing that i know of that is capable of doing something like that is "WinGetText()" but that just tells you if the text exists(and doesn't always work) not were it is

[bvr]

Can you explain what Insolence's script does, I don't quite understand it, and thats why I thought autoit could read text.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...c=8442&st=0

[Paulie]

Can you explain what Insolence's script does, I don't quite understand it, and thats why I thought autoit could read text.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...c=8442&st=0

This script is an OCR(Optical Character Recongnizer)

it basically pixelschecks for a chain of pixels that coincide in a pattern, it reads text from images,

this is what you'de have to do to read text,

howerver, most OCRs are unreliable and challenging because they are pretty picky as to what to register as a character and what not to.

[Squirrely1]

Say I want to search for certain words in a window, can autoit find letters or text like it does pixel colors?

This is untested but borrows from what was said by Paulie and requires that you have found what control might have the text in question. and that it will consistently be that control ID number you get by using the AutoIt Window Info tool found under Start button > All Programs > AutoIt v3

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $searchString, $ret, $controlID
$searchString = "my text"
$controlID =;[insert ID found using AutoIt Window Info]
$ret = ControlGetText($myWindow, $searchString, $controlID)
If StringInStr($ret, $searchString) Then
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "Your text is there.")
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Sorry", "Your text was no not found.")
EndIf

Otherwise you could try this:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $searchString, $ret
$searchString = "my text"
$ret = WinGetText($myWindow, $searchString)
If StringInStr($ret, $searchString) Then
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "Your text is there.")
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Sorry", "Your text was no not found.")
EndIf

Edited July 21, 2006 by Squirrely1

[SmOke_N]

This is untested but borrows from what was said by Paulie and requires that you have found what control might have the text in question. and that it will consistently be that control ID number you get by using the AutoIt Window Info tool found under Start button > All Programs > AutoIt v3

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $searchString, $ret, $controlID
$searchString = "my text"
$controlID =;[insert ID found using AutoIt Window Info]
$ret = ControlGetText($myWindow, $searchString, $controlID)
If StringInStr($ret, $searchString) Then
    MsgBox(0, "Sorry", "Your text isn't there.")
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "Your text was no not found.")
EndIf

Otherwise you could try this:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $searchString, $ret
$searchString = "my text"
$ret = WinGetText($myWindow, $searchString)
If StringInStr($ret, $searchString) Then
    MsgBox(0, "Sorry", "Your text isn't there.")
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "Your text was no not found.")
EndIf

He's needing something to read image text not actual text. That's why he referred to the OCR script above.