OCR screen scraping

OCR screen scraping method gives you the oportunity to improve or customize the way you want to perform screen scraping.

UI object selector

By clicking UI object you will see the selector of the scraped region/window.

Screen scraping method used

OCR is the method used to screen scrape the region in our example. You can also try Native or FullText method.

Edit selector

If you click Edit Selector button UiExplorer window will open

Scraped text

In this area you can see the extracted text using OCR method.

Options

1. Correction - it corrects the way the text was scraped. Here you have several options when you decide to rescrape the target app.
2. W/B - White/Black screen scraping - use this feature to scrape text when the background of the UI element is black or dark colored and the text is white.
3. Get rectangles - it shows the rectangular coordinates that define the position of each word inside a scraped region or window, relative to the UI element from which you scraped the text. Learn more here.

Adding new OCR languages

• Learn more here

Generate code or JavaScript

Studio can generate source code - C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6 - or JavaScript to automate screen scraping.