Reading text off screen
I had an interesting idea for my semester independant studies project...
My idea was to read text off the screen by analyzing the pixels. Then creating a scripting language that could perform extremely dynamic tasks since it could parse a screen capture and extract raw data from it.
Programming aside, has this (or someting simular) ever been done before? Id like some input/critisizm
My idea was to read text off the screen by analyzing the pixels. Then creating a scripting language that could perform extremely dynamic tasks since it could parse a screen capture and extract raw data from it.
Programming aside, has this (or someting simular) ever been done before? Id like some input/critisizm
Yes, it's called optical character recognition, or OCR; a subfield of computer vision. Recognition of printed Latin script is more or less a solved problem.
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