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Is there any way to find a text on screen without using image?

Asked by obaskirt

I want to assign "Some Text" into a variable and then I want to find this "Some Text" text pattern on the screen without using image. Sikuli based on a "find visually" idea but sometimes there is a need to find something on the screen without using image. For example, if we run our sikuli script with an argument and in our script, we want to find this argument on the screen. What should we do in this situation?

Maybe, the only way is to accomplish integration of sikuli with selenium/watin/watir and this kind of test automation tools or we can try to read html code or xml and write some functions to find text patterns...

Thanks in advance.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

Sikuli has an OCR feature: Region.text()

But be aware: bug 710586

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obaskirt (onur-baskirt) said : 		#2

I have tried that option but it is not reliable. It depends on tesseract. Thank you RaiMan.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

Ok, then if we are talking about web pages, something like Selenium is an alternative.

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daluu (cuuld) said : 		#4

Or on desktop GUIs, find another test tool to pair with Sikuli. On Windows, AutoIt is one option, and has a COM/ActiveX interface that can be called by Python (and maybe Jython) and Java.

there's probably similar options on Mac and Linux too.

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kiran maroju (kiranmaroj) said : 		#6

then how to pair AutoIT with Sikuli. i am new to this Sikuli.
Please help me

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deva (deva-n) said : 		#8

Hi,

I want to assign "Some Text" into a variable and then I want to find this "Some Text" text pattern on the screen without using image.

could you help on it ?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#9

text = "some text"
match = find(text)

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Chenna (bkckrao) said : 		#10

find(text) is finder class Finder(text) ..?
Please help me with the full command.

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