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Screenshot a window on Windows and OCR using Python and Tesseract
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""" | |
Requires installation of Tesseract for Windows: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki | |
""" | |
import pyautogui | |
import pytesseract | |
import win32gui | |
# Get the handle of the window you want to capture | |
window_handle = win32gui.FindWindow(None, "Task Manager") | |
# Get the position and size of the window | |
window_rect = win32gui.GetWindowRect(window_handle) | |
window_pos_x = window_rect[0] | |
window_pos_y = window_rect[1] | |
window_width = window_rect[2] - window_rect[0] | |
window_height = window_rect[3] - window_rect[1] | |
# Take a screenshot of the window | |
screenshot = pyautogui.screenshot( | |
region=(window_pos_x, window_pos_y, window_width, window_height) | |
) | |
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(screenshot) | |
print(text) | |
# Save the screenshot to a file | |
screenshot.save("screenshot.png") |
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[tool.poetry] | |
name = "test-screenshot" | |
version = "0.1.0" | |
description = "" | |
authors = ["Your Name <you@example.com>"] | |
readme = "README.md" | |
packages = [{include = "test_screenshot"}] | |
[tool.poetry.dependencies] | |
python = "^3.11" | |
pyautogui = "^0.9.53" | |
pywin32 = "^305" | |
pillow = "^9.4.0" | |
pytesseract = "^0.3.10" | |
[build-system] | |
requires = ["poetry-core"] | |
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api" |
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