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I'm not sure how easy it would be to do OCR due to the weird font the game uses. The numbers seem easy enough to read though (Way better than the ones used diab

by JD557 14y ago

I'm not sure how easy it would be to do OCR due to the weird font the game uses. The numbers seem easy enough to read though (Way better than the ones used diablo I/II), and I guess that's what count. If they changed the font to the old one it would probably not work though, since the '5' and the '6' characters where pretty similar.

wladimir 14y ago
Well, the advantage that screen scraping has over paper OCR is that the font is completely deterministic and there's (usually) no degrading effects. Even if '5' and '6' are pretty similar, there must be some pixel that can be used to distinguish them. What could make it more tricky is if alpha transparency is used for both the foreground and background. Still, the complexity isn't anywhere near "real life" OCR.