New customers can spin up VMs, build with AI, and query data at no cost.
Put your $300 in credit toward real workloads, then keep building with free monthly usage for 20+ products. No commitment and no charge until you upgrade.
Start Free
Fully Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server
Automatic backups, patching, replication, and failover. Focus on your app, not your database.
Cloud SQL handles your database ops end to end, so you can focus on your app.
Run defined applications by detecting text in a captured screenshot
This application requires the "TESSERACT" OCR engine to decode text in a captured screenshot. The text file can be analysed to look for specific trigger words which will run a defined application.
TESSERACT OCR is available for Windows users here:
https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/
Information on its use is generally available, this medium post provides an overview:
https://medium.com/quantrium-tech/installing-and-using-tesseract-4-on-windows-10-4f7930313f82
During the testing I used version 5 of the software.
...
It's a dumb, but lightning fast OCR engine, not using any fancy math to recognize text from screenshots. Aim to recognize 100% of text from screenshot, even if image is affected by jpeg compression or text is affected by antialiasing.