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RodolfoDias
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7 years ago

Enabling/Disabling Text Recognition at run time

I got a Question, I want to enable the text recognition for a specific window just for a certain moment on my test and then disable this window after I read it. Because there is many of that window o...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    Unfortunately, no.  Text recognition is something that is set up at design time of the project and, once the project run is started, it cannot be altered.  Think of it as a compiler directive when compiling an application.  They are settings and such that are built in to the executable that is compiled.  You can't change those in the EXE file itself, only in the development environment before the EXE is created.

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tristaanogre
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Unfortunately, no.  Text recognition is something that is set up at design time of the project and, once the project run is started, it cannot be altered.  Think of it as a compiler directive when compiling an application.  They are settings and such that are built in to the executable that is compiled.  You can't change those in the EXE file itself, only in the development environment before the EXE is created.

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RodolfoDias
New Contributor
7 years ago

So it won't be a performance problem either, right?

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago

    I'm not sure about performance, to be honest.  In my use of Text Recognition, it doesn't really seem to impact performance.

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      RodolfoDias
      New Contributor
      7 years ago

      Thank you so much for your replies, i'll give it a try