Guess the answer! is a general purporse Python algorithm that reads a series of questions and their answers, and tries to guess the correct answer based on the results of a Google search. It's a porting, in fact it's not so "general purporse" but it's easily adaptable to any quiz.
The idea is: on the screen, there is a window with the quiz, always placed in the same position. The algorithm reads the questions and their answers by taking a screenshot and reading the text via OCR. It will try to find the correct answer thanks to (multiple) Google searches. In the best of cases, a match is found immediately, otherwise, each answer will be assigned a score indicating the "confidence" regarding its correctness. Ideally, the algorithm can be used even if the quiz is hosted on a web browser, a desktop application, or a mobile application (with the help of emulators such as BlueStack or by screen-mirroring with tools such as ScrCpy). Just set the coordinates correctly.
- Install Tesseract-OCR:
brew install tesseract; - Move Tesseract train's data from tessdata:
mv tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata/; - (Optional) use a virtual env:
python3 -m venv venv; source venv/bin/activate; - Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt; - Set coordinates in src/Coords.py based on your screen (use
shift + cmd + 4).
Same as macOS instructions but you know how to install Tesseract.
Windows support requires some changes but installation follows the same steps. The software is easily portable and I gladly accept pull requests!
Developed only for educational purpose (and fun!).