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OCR to wait for Text to appear for some seconds simiar to find("image",20)

Asked by Chetan on 2021-03-11

Hi
is there a method for OCR to wait for Text to appear for someting seconds simiar to find("image",20)
currently we have findText("txt")
we need something like findText("txt",20)
similar method we have in find for images

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2021-03-15
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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : #1

Sorry, not available.

Make yourself a def:

def waitText(text, time):
    while time > 0:
        match = findText(text)
        if match: return match
        time -= 1
    return null

something like that - not tested

anyways: I put it on the list for 2.0.6

Chetan (cshamdas) said : #2

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.

Chetan (cshamdas) said : #3

Thanks Raiman for putting it on the list