How to read text from image?

[TaylorH]

Just like the title states, I am trying to grab text from a designated position on my screen and store it as a variable in game maker. Does gms have any built in functions to do this or does anyone know of a dll or extension? I remember doing this in game maker a long time ago but I don't remember how I did it. Commonly referred to as an OCR program. An example would be to Google "capture 2 text". I would just use that program but it only supports windows and I would prefer to keep all the code inside of game exe. No dlls if possible.

 

[Tsa05]

GMS does not have any built-in function to do this. There is a handwriting extension on the marketplace: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/4578/handwriting-recognition
You could also attempt to use an a web api like this: https://ocr.space/ocrapi
For anything else, I'd recommend searching github for text recognition; there are many, many people trying different kinds of solutions for this problem, and there are many strategies.