OCR/Captcha Breaking with autoit?

[bg1987]

Hi guys, I'm looking for a way to read some simple text from an image, something that will be able to take a screenshot of a desktop, and give me the names of the icons on it.

i.e. for this http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6324/emptya.jpg, it will return "Computer Recycle Bin Adobe Acrobat 9... Media Player Classic"

I looked for OCR and found tessaract but it doesn't do it very well.

Looking for simple captcha breaking (which is an overkill I think) also yielded nothing.

maybe anyone knows of such a script?

tl;dr:

need a script that can read text in certain fonts from a screenshot.

Thanks.

[Bert]

The names on the desktop can be gathered by simply looking at the desktop folder in the user directory and getting a list of the names

[Mechaflash]

You're not asking to break Captcha via OCR are u? hrm?

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Why do you want to read a screenshot? There are easier ways to get the list of icons on the desktop.

And what does this have to do with "captcha breaking"?

[bg1987]

I dont really want to read the icons on the windows desktop that was just an example for the capabilities im looking for.

I just want to know if a theres a script that can do pretty simple OCR but not of pure black on white fonts. something that could recognize something similar to this picture

and print out "Hello".

this isnt exactly OCR because they are usually meant for recognizing black text on a white background.

and its not captcha breaking because the image of the text isn't distorted.

its something between those two.

Im wondering if its possible.

[water]

Can you please explain what you want to achieve? Where comes this text from and why do you want to extract it?

It still looks a bit suspicious to me.

[Melba23]

bg1987,

You do not need OCR to read the desktop icon titles:

#include <Array.au3>
#include <File.au3>

; Get list of Desktop folders
Global $aList = _FileListToArray(@DesktopDir, "*", 2)
_ArrayDisplay($aList)

Does that do what you wanted?

M23

[water]

If I understand his post correctly this was just an example. He wants to get the text out of a picture.

[cageman]

your best bet is probably building a neural network to learn the pictures. If you can at least separate the letters in different pictures you should be able to learn a neural network the different letters pretty quickly.

[Melba23]

water,

I realise that. What I am after is what the OP actually wants because I am not at all sure at the moment and I would like some clarification.

M23

Edit: And I would be grateful if no-one else posted any "helpful tips" until we find out.

Edited October 16, 2012 by Melba23
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[PavelTangail]

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