[OCR broken] TFont.Create doesn't exist, even though it's in documentation

[Turbine1991]

Wiki: http://docs.villavu.com/simba/scriptref/ocr.html

Additionally, after making my font bitmaps - using the alternative OCR method. It doesn't load it correctly and just shows the top and bottom lines mostly.

[slackydev]

It's myFontVar.Init() in Simba when using Lape (this goes for just about every class constructor). All the properties, like myFontVar.name := .... are replaced with get/set functions. Eg, myFontVar.SetName('Arial');

[Turbine1991]

Cheers, this worked. However I'm still unable to get the OCR methods working. FindBitmap works, but OCR doesn't seem to. (I've been unable to get non-Runescape OCR working in SCAR either for over a decade)

For example, this is some text using the Windows provided font "Lucida Sans Typewriter" at size 20 of colour black #000000 - In paint, canvas area, Windows 10: http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=16_find_simple.png

program new;

var
  Font: TFont;
  output: String;

begin
  Font.Init();
  Font.SetName('Lucida Sans Typewriter');
  Font.SetSize(20); // Equivelant to 12px CSS? (px -> pt)
  Font.SetPixelsPerInch(96);
  Font.SetColor(000000);
  Font.SetStyle([]);
  LoadSystemFont(Font, 'Font1');

  DisplayDebugImgWindow(500, 150);
  DrawBitmapDebugImg(BitmapFromText('TEST 1234.987', 'Font1'));

  output := GetTextAtEx(164, 203, 371, 227, 0, 0, 0, 000000, 100, 'Font1');
  writeln(output);

  Font.Free();
end.

I'll get some silly output such as "I E S I 1 2 J 4 . 9 B 7", I've tried tuning all of the values but I don't seem to be getting anything accurate - by a long-shot.

In comparison, Capture2Text has 100% success rate, even without specifying a font - for any text I've tried it on. For an alternative method, I haven't found a way to return console output from say - the CLI capture tool in Simba.

[slackydev]

The issue stems from Simba's OCR not handling antialiasing, but instead requires near pixel perfect matches. SRL-6 includes tesseract. Use it.

[JohnPeel]

What @slackydev said is true. Simba cannot handle fonts with anti-aliasing.

Closing as this wasn't supported to begin with.