[Bf-docboard] Blender.org education/help section

[Tom M]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Raindrops From Sky
<raindrops.fromsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great!
>
> A couple of questions:
> 1. How does this script run? (Great if it is designed as a Blender plugin.)

Blender plugin
> 2. Can it take all sorts of screenshots (not just panels), as needed?

nope this is strictly to automate the process of capturing all of the
important panels and buttons

> It should be able to capture (a) icons, (b) any rectangle on screen or (c)
> panel.
>
that is unrelated to the purpose of this script

> 3. Can that script include OCR (with Tesseract etc)?
>     (we need an easy-to-use integrated script)

OCR isn't needed, the text can be retrieved directly from the string

> We will definitely need the OCR'd text along with each screenshot.
> A typical example is to describe what each control does.

no, we don't need ocr the text is available directly.

> If the screenshot is not OCR'd, we will need to enter a lot of text
> manually.

see above...

> *****
> Another option is using ZScreen (an open source screenshot program hosted at
> Google: see http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/)
> It can take a screenshot and upload it on any designated hosting server in
> one shot.
> Additionally, it can invoke an OCR program simultaneously.
> (Its "Action" tab allows us to send a command with the captured image as
> argument).
>
> One solution using MS Document Imaging is already suggested at its website
> (See http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/wiki/CaptureOCR).
>
> But if it can be used with a command line program like Tesseract, it would
> be great.
>
> Regards,
> Narayan
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ideasman just created the script for some of the panels.
>>
>> LetterRip
>>
>
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