Extracting Text from Onscreen vs Image

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Oct 18, 2018, 4:41:10 PM10/18/18

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Hey Guys/Gals,

I'm working on an application to assist myself and colleagues in our day to day tasks. Here's what I want to know.

Can Tesseract extract text from onscreen without using an image? If yes, how fast can it read and decipher the text?

If Tesseract can't, then I planned on taking a scrolling screenshot, and having Tesseract run through that.

flavi...@gmail.com

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Oct 21, 2018, 11:02:15 AM10/21/18

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Hi. I am a tesseract beginner, but I am thinking that tesseract need to input an image ...so, if you need to read something with tess, then you have to save some screenshots as images .. but this is not big deal ... I can help you with that :)