OCR Doesn't seem to work with phrases on Mac Desktop

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I’m testing a mac desktop app, please see the screenshot below as I try to ‘Find’ the “Live Playlists” text

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The viewer found it, but my command doesn’t work?
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I’ve tried “Live”, “Playlists”, none work, other single text items seem to be okay. Any help is appreciated

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(1) You might need to account for spaces with wildcards, because there could be like 1, 2 or 3 spaces between words. So try e. g. XclickText | Live*Playlists (note the *)

(2) You can test/debug this with this FIND button. It will show an overlay with the matches.

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Thank you @Plankton that actually worked! So is that just REGEX matching then?

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Great, thanks for the feedback! Regular expressions are not supported (yet?).

But you can now use the * and ? wildcard characters when searching for a match with the Xclicktext, Xclicktextrelative and other “…text…” commands.

  • The * wildcard character matches zero or more characters.

  • The ? wildcard character matches any single character.

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@Plankton, It’s interesting that it didn’t find “Live” or “Playlists”, which have no spaces, but I’m glad your solution worked. I will remember that.

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To just find “Live”, use simply

XclickText | Live