about Optical Character Recognition

[alex70]

Hello,

Here is the question:

Reading text from one windows appl at every few seconds and do action according to the extracting results.

Any idea and code please?

Thanks in advance

[jvanegmond]

Don't use OCR. Use ControlGetText instead.

[alex70]

Thank You for answering.

I read a lot for ControlGetText, but it cant extract info from this this control:

Basic Window Info:

Title: Untitled

Class: AfxFrameOrView70u

Basic Control Info:

Class: AfxWnd70u

Instance: 7

Here is the code:

$text = ControlGetText("Untitled", "","[CLASS:AfxWnd70u; INSTANCE:7]")
MsgBox(0, "Text read was:", $text)

Can you tell me where the problem is?

Thank you

Edited May 15, 2007 by alex70

[pphd]

I am facing the same problem as you did. Just cannot get the text using ControlGetText function.

And I am planning to use Ocr for the moment. But I am still not very sure if using Ocr to get the text is the best solution. Anyone with experience could say something about it?

[herewasplato]

$text = ControlGetText("Untitled", "","AfxWnd70u7")

...might work better for the OP and those following that example...