WinAppDriver
Windows Application Driver (by microsoft)
tesseract
A .Net wrapper for tesseract-ocr (by charlesw)
| WinAppDriver | tesseract | |
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| 7 | 4 | |
| 3,507 | 2,184 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.7 | |
| 22 days ago | 20 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
WinAppDriver
Posts with mentions or reviews of WinAppDriver.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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Automated testing WPF app
We use WinAppDriver with appium https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver We are no longer developing the desktop application, but our Azure devops pipeline is still running the tests.
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C# - Suggestions on automating windows desktop application?
It dead: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1550
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Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) With C#
First Download the WinAppDriver installer from https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases
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Universal UI testing based on image and text recognition
I started looking for UI testing solutions for desktop applications. I quickly discarded expensive UI testing suites. WinAppDriver was very interesting, but one of the requirements was to add some kind of identifiers on every UI element that we wanted to interact with. This would have required a huge effort from the team.
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Is there a way to open a program, do stuff inside it, then close it again with C#?
Appium and/or WinAppDriver are a newer alternative and pretty easy to use.
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The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
An automation tool to drive your application under test (AUT) - WinAppDriver & Appium
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How do I go about automating features in Microsoft Teams?
Check out WinAppDriver (Windows Application Driver) by Microsoft. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but the repo (link) has good examples in it.
tesseract
Posts with mentions or reviews of tesseract.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-05.
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Libarys like apples scan image to text
Tesseract OCR
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Universal UI testing based on image and text recognition
In order to implement text recognition, I needed to use another library, Tesseract. It is an optical character recognition engine made by Google. There is also a .NET wrapper for this library. I had to use a few tricks to properly match arbitrary text with a library that is best suited for digitized books, and cleverly use page segmentation methods. You will find how I used Tesseract in this C# class.
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C# Project for work
I think OpenCV is probably not the right application for what you're trying to do. You might try Tesseract OCR. In my experience OCR can be great at recognition when it's based on a crisp screenshot (usually it starts to struggle with scanned/photographed images).
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Tesseract OCR in C# imagepath problem
I'm playing around creating a xamarin app which can take a picture and then recognize the text. The xamarin project is pretty much done. I've OCR part of the app is done in regular c# / .NET (not xamarin), specifically the Tesseract .NET wrapper from Charles Weld. But I've encountered an error which i don't entirely understand and can't seem to resolve.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WinAppDriver and tesseract you can also consider the following projects:
Winium.Desktop - Winium.Desktop is Selenium Remote WebDriver implementation for automated testing of Windows application based on WinFroms and WPF platforms.
tesseract-samples - Samples for the Tesseract.Net wrapper
FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net
OpenCvSharp - OpenCV wrapper for .NET
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
marionette - Marionette is a test automation framework based on image and text recognition for .NET.
appium-desktop - Appium Server in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux
robotframework-appiumlibrary - AppiumLibrary is an appium testing library for RobotFramework
Atata - C#/.NET test automation framework for web
Oxygen - Functional-style C# Selenium wrapper for automated UI testing.
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
WinAppDriver vs Winium.Desktop
tesseract vs tesseract-samples
WinAppDriver vs FlaUI
tesseract vs OpenCvSharp
WinAppDriver vs ThisIsWin11
tesseract vs marionette
WinAppDriver vs appium-desktop
WinAppDriver vs robotframework-appiumlibrary
WinAppDriver vs Atata
WinAppDriver vs Oxygen
WinAppDriver vs OpenCvSharp
WinAppDriver vs tesseract-ocr