NAME

       visgrep - Visual grep, greps for images in another image

SYNOPSIS

       visgrep [options] image.png detect.png match.png ...

DESCRIPTION

       visgrep is a program that greps for image in another image.

       The detect.png and match.png files can also be .pat files.

       All  .pat  files  are  created  using  png2pat(1)  or rgb2pat(1). The image.png is scanned for detect.pat
       starting from X,Y given in parameters.  When detect.pat is  found,  then  all  the  match.pat  files  are
       scanned  at  an  offset  of x,y given in parameters. If a match is found, then visgrep prints the x,y and
       index of the item.

       For example, image.png is a screenshot and match1.pat .. match5.pat are images of letters a to e. Each of
       these  letters  is enclosed in a blue box, so detect.pat is an image of the upper left corner of the box.
       This box is not included in the match*.pat files, so they are actually offset 5 pixels down and 4  pixels
       to the left.  You might run it like this then:

         visgrep -x-4 -y5 image.png match_corner.pat match_a.pat match_b.bat ...

       Etc, with all matches listed. Now suppose the screen showed ace so visgrep might output:

         10,10 0
         50,10 2
         90,10 4

       Showing  that  match_a.pat  (index  0)  is  at  10,10 on the screen. If no match is found even though the
       detection image is found, the index will be -1.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -x     Set x offset for detection matching.

       -y     Set y offset for detection matching.

       -X     Start scanning at X.

       -Y     Start scanning at Y.

       -t     Set tolerance for 'fuzzy' matches, higher numbers are more tolerant.

EXIT STATUS

       0      at least one match was made.

       1      no matches were made.

       2      an error occurred.

SEE ALSO

       pat2ppm(1), patextract(1), png2pat(1), rgb2pat(1), xte(1).

AUTHOR

       visgrep was written by Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>.

       This manual page was written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but  may  be
       used by others).

                                                 April 20, 2004                                       VISGREP(1)