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MVenkataraman
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago

How to get the text from the application and compare it to previously known text

Hi: I am trying to read the text from a message box(popup box which prompts a hit, miss or abort message) each time it appears. The text can be either "Hit", "Miss" or "Abort". I need to find w...
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    Andrey_M
    12 years ago
    I don't recommend TC's OCR at all, result of recognition sometimes unpredictable and can provoke false negatives. I played with OCR couple of years ago and gave up.



    How do you track the event when message appears? Is it an onscreen object which TC can detect? If so, have you tried to inspect properties and find one which contains the text you need?



    I just want to make sure that image processing is only solution.



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MVenkataraman
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago
If anyone needs more info regarding this from me, do let me know. I am using vbscript and have researched using Text Recognition feature of TestComplete. But i am not able to implement it correctly.



Thanks in advance!!

Madhan