SeeShell gives you several ways to verify/assert and to extract text on canvas elements or any other screen:
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Verify with text as image using the FIND command.
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Extract the text with the EXTRACT… OCR command (this uses zonal ocr), and then return it to the calling script with the GetExtractImageData API command. Then, in your script, you can do all kinds of text comparison or, depending on your use case, also store the text data.
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Run a text search on the screen with TextFind (with the October update): As the command name suggests, this command searches for text in the image using high quality and very fast OCR. Even so technically it works completely different, concept wise this command is close to the “good, old” verifyText command from Selenium - with the key difference being that TextFind works great on canvas
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TextFind will use online OCR in the free community edition, just like Copyfish does. In addition, SeeShell Enterprise Editions include the option to use a local OCR engine for TextFind and all other OCR commands.
All three options apply to SeeShell and the SeeShell Browser.