npm module for extracting text from any window active on your computer
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Axios, jimp
npm install axios jimp
For Mac and Linux:
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active-win
npm install active-win
For Windows:
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screenshot-desktop
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win32-api
npm install screenshot-desktop win32-api
Linux users may need to install ImageMagicK:
sudo apt install imagemagick
npm install textscrapper
Before you begin
- Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
- Enable billing for your project.
- Enable the Google Cloud Vision API.
- Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.
const textscrapper = require("textscrapper");
(async () => {
// api key of google cloud project
textscrapper.setApiKey(API_KEY);
// optional, sets emrconfigs to identify which window to detect or not
// if not set, then it will detect all active windows
textscrapper.setConfig({
config: [
{
active: true,
displayName: "Google Chrome",
windowWildCard: "Google",
emrKey: "GOOGLE",
cropPercentages: { top: 20, right: 10, left: 10, bottom: 0 }
},
{
active: true,
displayName: "Visual Studio Code",
windowWildCard: "Code",
emrKey: "VSCODE",
cropPercentages: { top: 10, right: 70, left: 5, bottom: 50 }
}
]});
// limit maximum results
const maxResults = 5;
try {
// extract text from active windows
let texts = await textscrapper.extractText(maxResults);
console.log(texts);
} catch (e) {
console.error(e);
}
})();
// Other Methods
// Detect active window on your computer, returns window object.
const window = textscrapper.detectWindow();
// Get base64image of active window
const base64image = await textscrapper.getBase64Image(window);
// getText from base64image, {maxResults}: limit maximum results
const texts = await textscrapper.extractTextFromImage(base64Image, maxResults);MIT