Capturing/Recognizing Text In Another Window

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Scott,

> I'd like to write a Python program that could capture the contents of
> another Windows program and analyze the resultant bitmap.  First, I have no
> idea how to capture another window.  Second, I'm not even certain if this
> graphical problem is a Python issue or a Windows issue.
> 
> Can anyone offer me some guidance on this?

I'd use an automation program such as AutoIt
(http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt)
to capture the scree usign ALT+PRTSC (there is an example in the help
on how to do this). Then use MS Paint or whatever to save the image to
the disc from the clipboard.

>From there on you can open the bitmap and do whatever you want (try
PIL).

HTH.
Miki