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Screenshot Captor / Re: Greyscale Image

« on: September 22, 2009, 09:08 AM »

Can Minicap Do Grayscale now too?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Border Area

« on: September 22, 2009, 09:06 AM »

Also - is there a way to capture the screen in grayscale, not full color? I cannot find any method in your documentation.

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Mouser's Zone / Minicap Border Area

« on: September 20, 2009, 01:35 PM »

Hey Mouser - Thanks for your help a while ago with the -resize addition. That has worked like a charm. However, as you know, I am using Minicap in an OCR protocol I am building and it seems to have issues when I screen capture (using Minicap of course) a region, and if there is text/numbers along the border of the screen capture.

Because sometimes the edge of the screencapture is actually the edge of the screen, I cannot simply change the X component of the screen capture.  I saw you had a method for adding a 'border' but was unsure if this was like a plain black border like in HTML or if there was a way to add a  black border around a screen capture with a width of X pixels where I can define X?

Sorry, I might not be making sense with my problem.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 07:10 AM »

Yeah, I noticed my old script had "@SYSTEMDIR" in its path call and was like hmmm.... then I found the bugger.

Im using your minicap in a dynamic OCR algorithm that detects characters,strings, numerals and images under 150x150 pixels (ie: icons). Its quite fluid and very stable, but if the font goes small it sometimes confuses 'cl' with 'd' for example. Thus, by using your resize parameter I can solve this problem quite smoothly increasing its accuracy on the 'harder' bits. If you are interested in seeing your MiniCap in action in this regard, I can send you along some screenies. Again, thanks for all the help. 

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 07:06 AM »

Found the bugger hiding in the system32 dir... 

And guess what... SHE WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, im excited to get home from work and test this puppy in the script now. You  may have just increased my image recognition accuracy by an order of magnitude 

Thanks so much mouser! Ill let you know how it goes. Chalk another success up for the MiniCap.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 06:52 AM »

where is not a recognized command - using windows cmd. Gotta figure out where the 1.14 bugger is laying around since the Uninstall didn't take care of it.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 06:47 AM »

Yup something is screwy - give me a second. (two .exe's being launched as you suspected).

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 06:45 AM »

Ok - I found it - now the version says 1.16.~ ... however, I am still getting Unrecognized Command Line Argument for -resizex and -resizexp - should I post screenshots?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 06:40 AM »

Well... that makes me feel stupid. I have no idea why its doing that as I have deleted it and attempted a full re-install. I will see what I can do and get back to you.

Cheers

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 06:29 AM »

Ok (see attached).

Don't know why its this version, as I installed from your link! (And deleted the old one and tried again!)

Were the commands implemented in this version? Where to go from here?

Thanks for all the help thus far

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 05:33 AM »

Sorry for my ignorance on that easy thing - been trying to run it on the fly in an autoitscript and have not even tried to run the program standalone as its worked from the start   (except for the resize bit)

When I run minicap.exe I don't get a pop up with a title, I just get red outlines on my screen for where information can be grabbed. Should I be directing my eye somewhere else for the version label?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 05:27 AM »

Is there a quick way via cmd line to make it shout at me what version its running just to make sure? And to give a label thats correct 

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 05:24 AM »

Ok - now I did it manually via the command line and the -resize (et al.) commands, still don't work. So obviously im (1) either running the wrong version.. which seems highly unlikely since I installed from your direct link numerous times or (2) something is messed  

See Attached (tried with and without resize)

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 04:45 AM »

Yup, I tested it. -resizex (et al.) still is an unrecognized command line argument. The script works fine without it. I have no idea what is happening.

Works:

   ;$command &= ' -resizex ' & $percent commented out
      

Doesn't work (Unrecognized Command Line Argument):

   $command &= ' -resizex ' & $percent
      

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 04:36 AM »

Ok.

So, I deleted my entire MiniCap directory just to make sure I was getting the correct version rolling. I downloaded your version you just posted and haven't tried the script yet. The reason is, I wanted to show you this via its properties in windows (see attached). I don't know if this is correct, or if its signalling a problem, but this is what I was quickly mentioning before. This quite clearly isn't labeled the correct version, even if the setup.exe said it was installing the correct version - which it still might have, but the label might not be updated.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 15, 2009, 03:41 AM »

the -resizexp or -resizex command. I can take a screenshot - see attached.

The $percent variable in the code I posted is just an integer. In this case I set it to 200 just for testing.






And it all works without the new resize arguments. Though, I would really like to get the resize working as it would increase my pixel recognizing accuracy  

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Mouser's Zone / Minicap Download, Version & -resize

« on: June 14, 2009, 12:22 PM »

Hey Mouser - I messaged you a while back regarding Minicap and you kindly included the resize values such as -resizex and -resizexp...

However, I came back to download the newest version and several problems arise. (1) When I download the file, the version says installing 1.16.X - but the properties version states 1.08.X... this might not be a problem as the label just couldn't have been changed yet, but it relates to #2 where (2) I attempt to use the -resizex and -resizexp parameters it states "Unknown Command Line Argument"... so either its because the wrong version is uploaded, or im simply calling the method wrong.

I am doing the following:


      
      $command &= ' -resizexp ' & $percent
      

   


where my targetimage is an image location to store the screen capture. The _pos values are just for your -captureregion parameter. Now this puppy works just fine without the -resizewhatever line (I have tried exp and x) but I need to resize the image to make it larger for me to work with it better. The problem is, I keep throwing the "Unknown Command Lind Argument" exception....

any help would be greatly appreciated...

Regards,
M

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 08:20 PM »

Terrific - I will give it a shot!

do I need to input the PERECNTAGE% as an integer from 0-100 or a string 0%-100%?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 05:51 PM »

Ah sorry 

And thank you!

Could you please inform me when the changes are made? I will implement it immediately.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 05:27 PM »

That would help me at least VERY much. As I think OCR and other applications could benefit if they are using screen captor on small windows.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 02:54 PM »

I am using captor in another script I am writing like this:

      $sSwitches = ' -compress ' & $quality & '""'
      $sSwitches &= ' -save "' & $sTargetImage & '"'
      $sSwitches &= ' -captureregion ' & $ul_pos_x & ' ' & $ul_pos_y & ' ' & $br_pos_x & ' ' & $br_pos_y+4
      $sSwitches &= ' -exit'

This all works - I just want to know if there is a method like -compress or -capture that will allow me to resize with something like -size 200% or something.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 02:27 PM »

Yes - I am taking a screenshot of a small area in a window that will contain roughly 0-20 words that I want to OCR - I am using your Screen Captor to capture the screen then using other languages, such as Autoit to run the OCR algorithm.

However, the region is relatively small and the OCR has trouble because of its size - I was wondering if I could capture the image, magnify it (by increasing its size by a percentage) and then run my OCR options. So I was wondering if there is a screen captor method to do this.

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Screenshot Captor / Dynamic Resize?

« on: March 12, 2009, 01:24 PM »

Hey - this is my first post on the forums (I think...) and wanted to know if there was a way to resize a captured image via command line or the screen capture methods (like -compress #)?

I am integrated screenshot captor in an autoit script but it seems to struggle sometimes on smaller screenshots.

Cheers