schappim/macOCR

Feature Request: Specify X, Y, W, H via argument (unattended mode)

martin-braun opened this issue · 2 comments

martin-braun commented

For scripting, it would be nice if this tool could fetch text via X, Y, W, H.

It would need to use a different API (not ScreenCapture), because for scripting you also want to avoid any sound and the crosshair for obvious reasons.

My goal is to periodically scan a section on my screen for text.

EDIT: Made a PR on a fork of your project, which already has some more options and leverages the screencapture binary instead of the API: adam-zethraeus#2

This binary gives all the options I need, i.e. defining a rect or disabling the sound playing. I wonder how much performance it costs to take a screenshot every second.

adam-zethraeus commented

feel free to merge back any part of the fork btw!

martin-braun commented

@adam-zethraeus You mean to https://github.com/schappim/macOCR? Would you mind doing it, as I'm very busy, atm, and I'm satisfied with your fork. This repo looked unmaintained whereas yours gives more options, so it felt right to contribute to yours instead.