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How do i take a screenshot or capture a part of the screen with the imagemagick programmable interface?

thefalling wrote:How do i take a screenshot or capture a part of the screen with the imagemagick programmable interface?

I don't know what you mean by "programmable interface", but you can look here for screen capture:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#x

Whoops, meant "programming interface"

basically I wanna be able capture parts of the screen and redirect it to an ocr engine in c/c++. I wanna do it with the API rather than doing a system() call and using import.

Well i figured out how to capture the screen with magick++ by using x: in the filename, but I still dont know how to set Window to root or some window.