Re: Question about how gambling software works

So, how do you capture the data coming off the screen image to
transform it into something that can be processed? In other words,
when the J of diamonds comes up, how do you recognize it as the J of
diamonds? When someone raises, how do you get the program to recognize
the raise? Once that information is properly captured, it can then be
easily played with. I'm confused as to how to capture that info.


Barry wrote:
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I guess the most common form uses a screenscraper. However, at least
one site I found produces a log file. For that site simply writing a
program like a tail -f and processing the text was quicker. I wrote
the
first steps of a bot several months ago but lost interest when it came
around to implementing the betting intelligence.

2 questions then.

1) Where can I find a screenscraper to play with?


I don't know, that is what I wrote. In my case I was just
doing a little proof of concept. I just grabbed a screen image
did some bit conversions and piped it to an open source OCR
program.

A web search should turn up some offerings.

2) For the software that was producing the log file, how did you
figure out what it was doing?


The log file was a plain text copy of what each player was
betting, what cards you were dealt and what cards were
turned up on the table (i.e. this was a Texas holdem game).

.

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