How to make tesseract-ocr read from coordinates on the screen?

Question

I am trying to find an example of how to create a class / function that will try to read text from the screen in certain coordinates.

Something simple to use bitblt to capture the specified section of the screen and run tesseract on it. Everything is done in memory without the need to create image files on disk.

Tesseract seems to have a really bad API and requires a TIF image of all things, as far as I see, it can’t even be forced to perceive the image of a raster memory without a significant deepening in its code.

Any help would be appreciated, a real example would be ideal.

Answer 1

http://i.imgur.com/HaJ2zOI.png

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#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <fstream>
#include <memory>
#include <cstring>
#include <tesseract/baseapi.h>
#include <leptonica/allheaders.h>

#if defined _WIN32 || defined _WIN64
#include <windows.h>
#endif

class Image
{
    private:
        std::vector<std::uint8_t> Pixels;
        std::uint32_t width, height;
        std::uint16_t BitsPerPixel;

        void Flip(void* In, void* Out, int width, int height, unsigned int Bpp);

    public:
        #if defined _WIN32 || defined _WIN64
        explicit Image(HDC DC, int X, int Y, int Width, int Height);
        #endif

        inline std::uint16_t GetBitsPerPixel() {return this->BitsPerPixel;}
        inline std::uint16_t GetBytesPerPixel() {return this->BitsPerPixel / 8;}
        inline std::uint16_t GetBytesPerScanLine() {return (this->BitsPerPixel / 8) * this->width;}
        inline int GetWidth() const {return this->width;}
        inline int GetHeight() const {return this->height;}
        inline const std::uint8_t* GetPixels() {return this->Pixels.data();}
};

void Image::Flip(void* In, void* Out, int width, int height, unsigned int Bpp)
{
   unsigned long Chunk = (Bpp > 24 ? width * 4 : width * 3 + width % 4);
   unsigned char* Destination = static_cast<unsigned char*>(Out);
   unsigned char* Source = static_cast<unsigned char*>(In) + Chunk * (height - 1);

   while(Source != In)
   {
      std::memcpy(Destination, Source, Chunk);
      Destination += Chunk;
      Source -= Chunk;
   }
}

#if defined _WIN32 || defined _WIN64
Image::Image(HDC DC, int X, int Y, int Width, int Height) : Pixels(), width(Width), height(Height), BitsPerPixel(32)
{
    BITMAP Bmp = {0};
    HBITMAP hBmp = reinterpret_cast<HBITMAP>(GetCurrentObject(DC, OBJ_BITMAP));

    if (GetObject(hBmp, sizeof(BITMAP), &Bmp) == 0)
        throw std::runtime_error("BITMAP DC NOT FOUND.");

    RECT area = {X, Y, X + Width, Y + Height};
    HWND Window = WindowFromDC(DC);
    GetClientRect(Window, &area);

    HDC MemDC = GetDC(nullptr);
    HDC SDC = CreateCompatibleDC(MemDC);
    HBITMAP hSBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(MemDC, width, height);
    DeleteObject(SelectObject(SDC, hSBmp));

    BitBlt(SDC, 0, 0, width, height, DC, X, Y, SRCCOPY);
    unsigned int data_size = ((width * BitsPerPixel + 31) / 32) * 4 * height;
    std::vector<std::uint8_t> Data(data_size);
    this->Pixels.resize(data_size);

    BITMAPINFO Info = {sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER), static_cast<long>(width), static_cast<long>(height), 1, BitsPerPixel, BI_RGB, data_size, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    GetDIBits(SDC, hSBmp, 0, height, &Data[0], &Info, DIB_RGB_COLORS);
    this->Flip(&Data[0], &Pixels[0], width, height, BitsPerPixel);

    DeleteDC(SDC);
    DeleteObject(hSBmp);
    ReleaseDC(nullptr, MemDC);
}
#endif

int main()
{
    #if defined _WIN32 || defined _WIN64
    HWND SomeWindowHandle = GetDesktopWindow();
    HDC DC = GetDC(SomeWindowHandle);

    Image Img = Image(DC, 0, 0, 200, 200); //screenshot of 0, 0, 200, 200..

    ReleaseDC(SomeWindowHandle, DC);
    #else
    Image Img = Image(some_pixel_pointer, 200, 200); //pointer to pixels..
    #endif

    std::unique_ptr<tesseract::TessBaseAPI> tesseract_ptr(new tesseract::TessBaseAPI());

    tesseract_ptr->Init("/tesseract/tessdata', 'eng");
    tesseract_ptr->SetImage(Img.GetPixels(), Img.GetWidth(), Img.GetHeight(), Img.GetBytesPerPixel(), Img.GetBytesPerScanLine()); //Fixed this line..

    std::unique_ptr<char[]> utf8_text_ptr(tesseract_ptr->GetUTF8Text());

    std::cout<<utf8_text_ptr.get()<<"\n";

    return 0;
}