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Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a long time but all I could find was proprietary stuff or not-that-good free alternatives. I'm not being dram
by throwamon 5y ago
Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a long time but all I could find was proprietary stuff or not-that-good free alternatives. I'm not being dramatic when I say I feel this is going to change my life, so thank you!
- dandanua 5y agoThis is a pretty old project, started long before AI hype. It's still very cool, but I wonder why no one wrote something similar using all the advancements in CV that we have now.
- eastendguy 5y agoNewer: UI.Vision is newer and I find it easier to use. A key difference is that UI.Vision supports text reading (via OCR) out of the box: https://ui.vision/rpa/x/desktop-automation https://ui.vision/rpa/x/desktop-automation
- elitepleb 5y agoSo does sikulix, via tesseract, out of the box.
- eastendguy 5y agoMy key point was that there are newer alternatives (the OP asked for that). PyAutoGUI would be another newer alternative. So are Applitools and UIPath, but they are not open-source. The challenge with Tesseract is that its OCR quality is (too) low for screenshots because screenshots are usually text on colored background. Tesseract is optimized for classical text document OCR. Of course, you can switch OCR engines with Sikuli (I did that before), but this requires touching the source code.