#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Reads the words tesseract found on a screenshot and prints the phrases on screen, or the centre of one phrase. # # screen-text.py lines one phrase per line: centre x,y and its words # screen-text.py find "x y" of the first phrase containing the text; 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. Words are compared ignoring case 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 def key(text): return re.sub(r"[^0-9a-z]", "", text.lower()) 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 centre(words): return ((min(w["l"] for w in words) + max(w["r"] for w in words)) / 2, (min(w["t"] for w in words) + max(w["b"] for w in words)) / 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 glue an icon to the first word, or punctuation or the text cursor to the last, # so long edge words match by suffix or prefix. def word_matches(word, k, first, last): if word == k: return True if len(k) < 4: return False return (first and word.endswith(k)) or (last and word.startswith(k)) def find(all_phrases, text): keys = [k for k in map(key, text.split()) if k] n = len(keys) for phrase in all_phrases: for i in range(len(phrase) - n + 1): if all(word_matches(phrase[i + j]["key"], k, j == 0, j == n - 1) for j, k in enumerate(keys)): return centre(phrase[i:i + n]) 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": found = find(on_screen, args[0]) if not found: sys.exit(1) print(f"{round(found[0])} {round(found[1])}") else: sys.exit(f"unknown command: {command}") main()