#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Reads the words tesseract found on a screenshot and prints the phrases on screen, or where one text is. # # screen-text.py lines one phrase per line: centre x,y and its words # screen-text.py find "x y left top right bottom": centre and box of the text, from the phrase # that is exactly the text, else the first one containing it; fails if none does # # has tesseract's TSV of the dark-text and the light-text pass (dark.tsv, light.tsv), in pixels of the # screenshot enlarged by , and gray.pgm, the screenshot in 8-bit grayscale. Printed coordinates are # screen pixels. Text is compared ignoring case, spaces and punctuation. import csv import os import re import statistics import sys # Luminance (0-255) below which a background is dark enough for light text: blue buttons are about 115, disabled grey # ones about 137, light ones (window, fields, cards) over 230. LIGHT_BACKGROUND = 190 # In the app's font a capital I looks like a lowercase l, and OCR reads it as one, so the two compare equal. def key(text): return re.sub(r"[^0-9a-z]", "", text.lower()).replace("l", "i") def read_words(path, scale): words = [] with open(path, newline="") as f: for row in csv.DictReader(f, delimiter="\t", quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE): text = (row["text"] or "").strip() if row["level"] != "5" or not key(text): continue left, top, width, height = (int(row[k]) / scale for k in ("left", "top", "width", "height")) words.append({"text": text, "key": key(text), "l": left, "t": top, "r": left + width, "b": top + height}) return words def read_gray(path): with open(path, "rb") as f: data = f.read() header = re.match(rb"P5\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s", data) if int(header[3]) != 255: sys.exit(f"{path}: expected 8-bit samples, got maximum {int(header[3])}") return int(header[1]), int(header[2]), data[header.end():] # The median of the rows 2 to 4 pixels above and below the word: its background, free of its own letters. def background(gray, w): width, height, luminance = gray left, right = max(int(w["l"]), 0), min(int(w["r"]), width - 1) rows = [int(w["t"]) - d for d in (2, 3, 4)] + [int(w["b"]) + d for d in (2, 3, 4)] return statistics.median(luminance[y * width + x] for y in rows if 0 <= y < height for x in range(left, right + 1)) def box(words): return min(w["l"] for w in words), min(w["t"] for w in words), max(w["r"] for w in words), max(w["b"] for w in words) def centre(words): left, top, right, bottom = box(words) return (left + right) / 2, (top + bottom) / 2 # Each pass also reads noise where its polarity doesn't apply (the gaps between dark letters look like light text), # so a word counts only from the pass that matches the background under it. def screen_words(ocr_dir, scale): gray = read_gray(os.path.join(ocr_dir, "gray.pgm")) def on_light_background(w): return background(gray, w) >= LIGHT_BACKGROUND dark = read_words(os.path.join(ocr_dir, "dark.tsv"), scale) light = read_words(os.path.join(ocr_dir, "light.tsv"), scale) return [w for w in dark if on_light_background(w)] + [w for w in light if not on_light_background(w)] # A word continues a phrase when it is on the same line as the phrase's last word and at most 1.5 of their height after it; # wider gaps separate UI elements. def follows(a, b): h = min(a["b"] - a["t"], b["b"] - b["t"]) return min(a["b"], b["b"]) - max(a["t"], b["t"]) >= 0.5 * h and -0.5 * h <= b["l"] - a["r"] <= 1.5 * h def phrases(words): result = [] for w in sorted(words, key=lambda w: w["l"]): phrase = next((p for p in result if follows(p[-1], w)), None) if phrase: phrase.append(w) else: result.append([w]) return sorted(result, key=lambda p: (min(w["t"] for w in p), p[0]["l"])) # OCR can split or join words ("#ci_group" read as "#ci_ group"), so words are compared by their joined characters. # It can also glue an icon to the first word, or punctuation or the text cursor to the last, so the text may start # inside the first word and end inside the last when at least 4 of its characters are in that word. def span_matches(words, target): keys = [w["key"] for w in words] joined = "".join(keys) start = joined.find(target) while start >= 0: end = start + len(target) first_ok = start == 0 or len(keys[0]) - start >= 4 last_ok = end == len(joined) or len(keys[-1]) - (len(joined) - end) >= 4 if start < len(keys[0]) and end > len(joined) - len(keys[-1]) and first_ok and last_ok: return True start = joined.find(target, start + 1) return False def find(all_phrases, text): target = key(text) if not target: return None for phrase in all_phrases: if "".join(w["key"] for w in phrase) == target: return phrase for phrase in all_phrases: for i in range(len(phrase)): for j in range(i + 1, len(phrase) + 1): if span_matches(phrase[i:j], target): return phrase[i:j] return None def main(): scale, ocr_dir, command, args = float(sys.argv[1]), sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4:] on_screen = phrases(screen_words(ocr_dir, scale)) if command == "lines": for phrase in on_screen: x, y = centre(phrase) print(f"{round(x)},{round(y)} {' '.join(w['text'] for w in phrase)}") elif command == "find": words = find(on_screen, args[0]) if not words: sys.exit(1) print(" ".join(str(round(v)) for v in centre(words) + box(words))) else: sys.exit(f"unknown command: {command}") main()