I hope I don't need to OCR this thing...

[everseeker]

Have a page full of little edit boxes... a "sea" of the little critters... (see attachment)

I need to read the contents of one of them into a variable.

But, although I can "see" that there's a value, the Text field is still showing "Blank"......

Do I need to capture the area and OCR it?

or am I missing something?

Edited April 1, 2008 by everseeker

[ofLight]

I cant tell from the Pic weather thats a seperate app or a window within Firefox, but _INetGetSource might work ?

EDIT: the more i look at it the more it looks like a stand alone app .

Edited April 1, 2008 by ofLight

[Oldschool]

Browsers OCR with high precision, and on such a large area it would be very easy using the MODI engine. (part of MSOffice)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...c=61714&hl=

You could also use tesseract ocr engine, but it's slow on large areas, it is free though and you don't need MsOffice to run it.

MODI would be better in this case probably.

[junkew]

Have a page full of little edit boxes...

Do I need to capture the area and OCR it?

or am I missing something?

Maybe finding a bitmap (BMP) can help

Finding a BMP in another BMP

This can work if your expected value is always the same. Will get more complicated if you don't know upfront the expected value. You could draw the expected text as a picture and try to find that but then MODI/OCR engine is more advicable.

What are the other tabs of AU3INFO giving back?

Can you copy paste manually the value with CTRL-C, CTRL-V.

If so you can solve your problem by navigating the mouse to the area you want to check and do a mousemove and drag and finally send the keys to copy paste to clipboard and then you retrieve the value from the clipboard

[everseeker]

Maybe finding a bitmap (BMP) can help

Finding a BMP in another BMP

This can work if your expected value is always the same. Will get more complicated if you don't know upfront the expected value. You could draw the expected text as a picture and try to find that but then MODI/OCR engine is more advicable.

What are the other tabs of AU3INFO giving back?

Can you copy paste manually the value with CTRL-C, CTRL-V.

If so you can solve your problem by navigating the mouse to the area you want to check and do a mousemove and drag and finally send the keys to copy paste to clipboard and then you retrieve the value from the clipboard

1. It's a standalone App... not a browser window

2. Can't Click on the field, so direct manipulation seems to be out

3. Here's a full dump of the screen contents while attached to one of the edit boxes (there's 20+ of them... all acting the same)

and yes, the data does appear in the collection of "Visible Text" but there's no way I can see to predict where in the collection the data will be... for all the windows...

----

Actually, is there a way to capture all the "visible Text" in an array?

If I could, perhaps I could devise an algorithm to determine the correct cell.....

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[everseeker]

So, no alternatives to OCR?

[seangriffin]

Browsers OCR with high precision, and on such a large area it would be very easy using the MODI engine. (part of MSOffice)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...c=61714&hl=

You could also use tesseract ocr engine, but it's slow on large areas, it is free though and you don't need MsOffice to run it.

MODI would be better in this case probably.

Click here to visit my Tesseract UDF.