Bounds Property

Applies to TestComplete 14.40, last modified on April 22, 2021

Description

The Bounds property returns an object that describes the bounds of a tabular data block within an object or image to which the block belongs.

Declaration

OCRTableObj.Bounds

Read-Only Property A Bounds object
OCRTableObj An expression, variable or parameter that specifies a reference to an OCRTable object

Applies To

The property is applied to the following object:

OCRTable

Property Value

A Bounds object that describes the rectangle containing the recognized tabular data.

Example

The following example shows how to use optical character recognition to recognize the tabular data on a web page and get the rectangle that contains the data:

JavaScript, JScript
Python
VBScript
DelphiScript
C++Script, C#Script

JavaScript, JScript

function Main()
{
  // Navigate to the tested web page
  var url = "https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_border";
  Browsers.Item("chrome").Run(url);

  // Get the page area containing the table
  var page = Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("*");
  var gridArea = page.FindChild("idStr", "iframeresult", 10);

  if (gridArea != null)
  {
    // Specify whether the table has a header
    var hasHeader = true;
    // Specify the preferable search area
    var searchPref = spNone;
    // Recognize the table content
    var table = OCR.Recognize(gridArea).DetectTable(searchPref, hasHeader);

    // Post an image of the screen area
    // That contains the recognized table
    x = table.Bounds.Left;
    y = table.Bounds.Top;
    width = table.Bounds.Width;
    height = table.Bounds.Height;
    str = "View the image of the area containing the table in the Picture panel";

    Log.Picture(gridArea.Picture(x, y, width, height), str);
  }
  else
    Log.Warning("Cannot obtain the search area.");
}

Python

def Main():
  # Navigate to the test web page
  url = "https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_border"
  Browsers.Item["chrome"].Run(url)

  # Get the page area containing the table
  page = Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("*")
  gridArea = page.FindChild("idStr", "iframeresult", 10)

  if (gridArea != None):
    # Specify whether the table has a header
    hasHeader = True
    # Specify the preferable search area
    searchPref = spNone
    # Recognize the table contents
    table = OCR.Recognize(gridArea).DetectTable[searchPref, hasHeader]

    # Post an image of the screen area
    # That contains the recognized table
    x = table.Bounds.Left
    y = table.Bounds.Top
    width = table.Bounds.Width
    height = table.Bounds.Height
    str = "View the image of the area containing the table in the Picture panel"

    Log.Picture(gridArea.Picture(x, y, width, height), str)     
    
  else:
    Log.Warning("Cannot obtain the search area.")

VBScript

Sub Main
  ' Navigate to the tested web page
  url = "https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_border"
  Browsers.Item("chrome").Run(url)

  ' Get the page area containing the table
  Set page = Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("*")
  Set gridArea = page.FindChild("idStr", "iframeresult", 10)

  If Not gridArea Is Nothing Then
    ' Specify whether the table has a header
    hasHeader = True
    ' Specify the preferable search area
    searchPref = spNone
    ' Recognize the table content
    Set table = OCR.Recognize(gridArea).DetectTable(searchPref, hasHeader)

    ' Post an image of the screen area
    ' That contains the recognized table
    x = table.Bounds.Left
    y = table.Bounds.Top
    width = table.Bounds.Width
    height = table.Bounds.Height
    str = "View the image of the area containing the table in the Picture panel"

    Call Log.Picture(gridArea.Picture(x, y, width, height), str)
  Else
    Log.Warning("Cannot obtain the search area.")
  End If
End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure Main();
var url, page, gridArea, hasHeader, searchPref, table, x, y, width, height, str;
begin
  // Navigate to the tested web page
  url := 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_border';
  Browsers.Item('chrome').Run(url);

  // Get the page area containing the table
  page := Sys.Browser('chrome').Page('*');
  gridArea := page.FindChild('idStr', 'iframeresult', 10);

  if gridArea <> nil then
  begin
    // Specify whether the table has a header
    hasHeader := true;
    // Specify the preferable search area
    searchPref := spNone;
    // Recognize the table content
    table := OCR.Recognize(gridArea).DetectTable(searchPref, hasHeader);

    // Post an image of the screen area
    // That contains the recognized table
    x := table.Bounds.Left;
    y := table.Bounds.Top;
    width := table.Bounds.Width;
    height := table.Bounds.Height;
    str := 'View the image of the area containing the table in the Picture panel';

    Log.Picture(gridArea.Picture(x, y, width, height), str);
  end
  else
    Log.Warning('Cannot obtain the search area.');
end;

C++Script, C#Script

function Main()
{
  // Navigate to the tested web page
  var url = "https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_table_border";
  Browsers["Item"]("chrome")["Run"](url);

  // Get the page area containing the table
  var page = Sys["Browser"]("chrome")["Page"]("*");
  var gridArea = page["FindChild"]("idStr", "iframeresult", 10);

  if (gridArea != null)
  {
    // Specify whether the table has a header
    var hasHeader = true;
    // Specify the preferable search area
    var searchPref = spNone;
    // Recognize the table content
    var table = OCR.Recognize(gridArea).DetectTable(searchPref, hasHeader);

    // Post an image of the screen area
    // That contains the recognized table
    x = table["Bounds"]["Left"];
    y = table["Bounds"]["Top"];
    width = table["Bounds"]["Width"];
    height = table["Bounds"]["Height"];
    str = "View the image of the area containing the table in the Picture panel";

    Log["Picture"](gridArea["Picture"](x, y, width, height), str);
  }
  else
    Log["Warning"]("Cannot obtain the search area.");
}

See Also

OCRTable Object
Optical Character Recognition

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