[wyldfire]

> Although seemingly insignificant, the right-side UI is actually harder for the Tesseract OCR Engine to parse, since the colors are less distinct.

shrug, all the while making it harder for humans to see, too. All of these suggestions move the goal posts a bit and set things up for a cat-and-mouse game.

I applaud Cognetta's effort but sadly I think we are heading for a future where artificially intelligent agents will ruin fun things like this.

[nbclark]

My approach (see below) cropped the screenshot before running OCR to remove mistranslations.

[stervy]

Hey, Cognetta here :).

I also cropped the screenshot before running OCR, but I can still imagine HQ changing its UI frequently to thwart OCR attempts.

[nbclark]

Yeah that'd be a simple change for them. I'm happy to know I wasn't alone in this. I knew for sure someone else must be doing the same thing :) How are you taking the screenshots? I made a little hotkey script, but feel I could be a bit quicker on it.

[stervy]

Kind of hacky, but I'm using the shell "screencapture" command and setting the coordinates to the spot on the computer screen where I put the quicktime screen mirroring window

[PeterisP]

Humans prefer predictable user interfaces. You can change the UI with a major update, but if they'd be changing the UI frequently just to thwart OCR attempts then they'd be throwing out the baby with the bathwater - what good is stopping OCR if the normal users drop your app because it starts sucking?