Eggplant OCR is unable to read the dynamic text efficiently and clearly

Aishwarya

Hi,
I am automating a process of validating dynamic text present in one of the application  and Eggplant OCR is unable to fetch the correct text from the application. For example : "flu" is fetched as "hu" , "to" is fetched as "fo" ..etc.

I tried to using "ValidWords" and "ValidCharacters " Properties ,which was not of much help. This worked for  few ,but not for all the texts.

 Following are the line of code which i used to read the text form the application.

1. put ReadText((build),EnableAggressiveTextExtraction:Yes,Contrast: On, ContrastColor:Black,ContrastTolerance: 70,ValidWords:Response1,IgnoreNewLines:Yes,CaseSensitive: Yes,)into Resp1

2. put ReadText((build),EnableAggressiveTextExtraction:Yes,Contrast: On, ContrastColor:Black,ContrastTolerance: 70,ValidCharacters:Response1,IgnoreNewLines:Yes,CaseSensitive: Yes,)into Resp1


build- contains the search-rectangle co-ordinates from where the text has to be read.
Response1: Contains valid words
resp1- contains the text which is read from the application.


Kindly let me know if anyone has faced issue while reading the dynamic text and if any resolution to overcome this issue.

Thanks.
Ash.

EggplantMatt

It sounds like you have a poorly chosen screen font. My guess would be that if you really look at it closely with a critical eye, you'll be able to see why it would be difficult to read at the pixel level. For assistance with these issues, you should submit a case to support via email and include screenshots of the text you are trying to extract.

DaveHester

Is your text live (i.e. can you select it on the screen by 'highlighting it'?) If so, give this a try:

// Highlights text to the right of an image and returns the highlighted value

function HighlightTextAdjacentToImage myImageName, myDragDropOffsetX, myDragDropOffsetY, myDragDropDistance

if myDragDropOffsetX is "" then set myDragDropOffsetX to 3

if myDragDropOffsetY is "" then set  myDragDropOffsetY to 0

put ImageRectangle(imageName:myImageName, waitFor:5) into  myDragDropMarker

set myDragDropStartX to item 3 of  myDragDropMarker +  myDragDropOffsetX

set myDragDropStartY to round(the average of (item 4 of  myDragDropMarker,item 2 of  myDragDropMarker)) +  myDragDropOffsetY

set myDragDropFinishX to  myDragDropStartX +  myDragDropDistance

set myDragDropFinishY to  myDragDropStartY

Drag ( myDragDropStartX, myDragDropStartY)

Drop ( myDragDropFinishX, myDragDropFinishY)

TypeText controlKey,"c"

set thevalue to RemoteClipboard()

return thevalue

end HighlightTextAdjacentToImage