Dynamic Resize?

[S0789300]

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

[mouser]

can you elaborate a bit more about what you want to do?

[S0789300]

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.

[mouser]

well certainly you can resize the image from within screenshot captor (hit ctrl+G or choose Resize from the Edit menu), but it sounds like you might benefit more by finding a 3rd party commandline resizer tool and then configuring it from the screenshot captor Tool menu,

[S0789300]

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.

[mouser]

ah.. are you using the MiniCap commandline tool?

I could add resizing commandline options to that if people think it would be useful.

[S0789300]

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.

[mouser]

MiniCap is related to Screenshot Captor but it helps to remember they are separate programs, otherwise you confuse me!

I will add commandline resizing options to MiniCap.

[S0789300]

Ah sorry 

And thank you!

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

[mouser]

Ok try the new version of MiniCap -- see help file for the new options:

-resizexp PERCENTAGE
resize x dimension to PERCENTAGE% of its original value (y will be scaled to preserve ratio if no y resize value specified)

-resizeyp PERCENTAGE
resize y dimension to PERCENTAGE% of its original value (x will be scaled to preserve ratio if no x resize value specified)

-resizex WIDTH
resize x dimension to exactly WIDTH pixels (y will be scaled to preserve ratio if no y resize value specified)

-resizey HEIGHT
resize y dimension to exactly HEIGHT pixels (y will be scaled to preserve ratio if no y resize value specified)

[S0789300]

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%?

[mouser]

0-100

dont use %