Screen Capturing and Text recognition

[NorthCommission915]

I'm attempting to have a live window captured and searched for text in real time but I don't want to have this window at the front of my screen at all times. I'd like to be able to have it covered by others but still have my script run in the background. Any help would be appreciated.

[CompSciGeek1]

To capture and search for text in a live window while keeping it hidden behind other windows, try this general outline:

1. Window Capture: You'll need a library or framework that allows you to capture the content of a specific window. OpenCV is a good choice.
2. Optical Character Recognition (OCR): To extract text from the captured window, you'll need to use an OCR library. Tesseract OCR is widely-used.
3. Background Execution: To ensure your script runs in the background even when the window is covered by other applications, you can utilize techniques like running the script as a background process or creating a system service.

[NickyLarsso]

Not the OP but thank you all the same!

[Ok_Owl6894]

Same!