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Tom Pitts
Tom Pitts

Reputation: 600

Taking a print screen of a particular window using PIL using Python

I want to take a print screen of a particular window on my PC by running the python program and it taking that screen shot, before cropping it and comparing its hex value to other hex values in a SQL server.

I have thought about letting it wait 10 seconds whilst I get the other window up and then start taking the print screens continuously until one matches.

I was just wondering if I can use python to maximize that particular window that I want to print screen automatically and then have it take a print screen.

If not, could I take a print screen (a picture) of a window that is minimized? (I think this is impossible)..

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3103

Answers (1)

Mike Driscoll
Mike Driscoll

Reputation: 33111

If you do a quick Google search, you will find this helpful tutorial that uses PIL to take a screenshot of a desktop:

Assuming you're on Windows, you would need to use PyWin32 (or possibly pywinauto) to get the window you want. These two links will help with that:

Then you could use MoveWindow to resize the window you found before taking the screenshot:

Upvotes: 1

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