{"id":7552,"date":"2020-10-17T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2020-10-17T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T09:24:16","slug":"image-grabber-1-0-with-python-final-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/image-grabber-1-0-with-python-final-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Image grabber 1.0 with Python (final version)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you need<\/h2>\n

Apart from python, you need to install pyscreenshot<\/strong> and pynput<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go in the cmd or in the terminal (or powerhell) or in the linux shell and write:<\/p>\n

pip install pyscreenshot\r\n\r\npip install pynput<\/pre>\n
Maybe you have to write pip3 for mac os.<\/p>\n
Remember not to put the i in pynput<\/strong>, because I do it every time and it will not make you find the module.<\/p>\n
What is grabimage?<\/h2>\n
A very simple program to grab<\/strong> images with the mouse. There are similar apps on windows, but I thought this could be useful for other programs in python where you got to get some images from the computer screen, so that you can use them. In particular, I got the intention to make a simple script where I get a screen portion and then I get the text out of the picture ready to be used in some text editor.<\/p>\n
The code to grab a part of the screen is here (github repo)<\/a>. You have to click once for the top left corner of the part of the screen you want to get and then at the bottom down corner of the part of the screen you want to get.<\/p>\n
In another post we will see how to use this code in other scripts.<\/p>\n
Video example of how the code works<\/h2>\n
https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/grabthe-screen.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n
# grabscreen.py\r\n\r\nimport pyscreenshot as ImageGrab\r\nimport os\r\nfrom pynput.mouse import Listener\r\nimport sys\r\n\r\ndef grab(x, y, w, h):\r\n    im = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(x, y, w, h))\r\n    save(im)\r\n\r\n\r\ndef save(im):\r\n    im.save('im.png')\r\n    os.startfile('im.png')\r\n\r\nclick1 = 0\r\nx1 = 0\r\ny1 = 0\r\ndef on_click(x, y, button, pressed):\r\n    global click1, x1, y1\r\n    \r\n    if pressed:\r\n        if click1 == 0:\r\n            x1 = x\r\n            y1 = y\r\n            click1 = 1\r\n        else:\r\n            grab(x1, y1, x, y)\r\n            listener.stop()\r\n            sys.exit()\r\n\r\nprint(\"Click once on top left and once on bottom right\")\r\n# with Listener(on_move=on_move, on_click=on_click, on_scroll=on_scroll) as listener:\r\nwith Listener(on_click=on_click) as listener:\r\n    listener.join()\r\n    listener.stop()\r\n    sys.exit()<\/pre>\n
Live coding explanation of the script to grab the screen<\/h2>\n