macros for apple

[kylefoley76]

I really find the idea of macro recording great and amazing. Macros have helped people like me who have no experience in computer programming get a lot of work done due to their very simple and intuitive use. When I have a repetetive task the macro recording button has saved me a lot of work. I have often wondered if this concept could be applied to the whole apple computer. For example I want to stake about 800 screen shots of a book since I cannot cut and paste from the book. Then I have some other software that will OCR it all at one time. If I could just find some program that will simply hit open apple 3 then click on a certain coordinate two dimensional space on my screen 800 times, that would do the job and I would save 3 hours of work. Does anyone know of any sort of basic computer program like this?

 

[mikerickson]

It sounds like you might be interested in the Automator app that comes built in with OS X.

http://macscripter.net/ is a forum for Automator and AppleScript use.