PokerOCR is a software package consisting of two programs: PokerRecorder and PokerRecorderOCR . The main task of PokerOCR is to create hand histories at the moment before Hero , to further use hand histories in other poker programs, including those prohibited by the poker rooms, with the aim of getting advice on what to do in this situation.
      Every or almost every poker player has experienced a losing streak (tilt), which is usually expressed in the form of fear of another move. Fear is the result of anxiety. And anxiety is the result of doubt and uncertainty. Uncertainty arises if you have a question without an answer or you cannot prove the correctness of your answer. Such unresolved issues accumulate and cause concern. If no answers are found, then over time, anxiety can turn into fear. Indeed, players are not rarely tormented by questions like: how was it necessary to play correctly? Why do they always move me? Why can't I beat this fish? etc. Indeed, it is insecurity that leads to fear.
      In fact, it is impossible to remove all questions and uncertainties from poker. As you know, poker is a game with incomplete information. Unlike chess, where the whole position is in front of you, in poker you do not know the opponents cards, which necessarily leads to questions in the course of the game. Here the level of knowledge and professionalism of the player come into force. Thanks to the experience, he can estimate the initial range of the player's cards, clarify it in subsequent actions, determine the possible outcome. That is, the pros can reduce the level of uncertainty, if not to zero, but to an acceptable minimum. A beginner player cannot do this. He seeks, believes that he should, but knowledge is not enough, hence panic, convulsive decision-making.
      So what do beginner poker players do in this situation? There is a solution - to shift the responsibility of decision making to a computer program. There are a lot of poker programs on the market now that either explicitly suggest what to do in this situation or offer tools with which the player can independently determine what to do, how to go.
      Until recently, the following types of poker software were the most in demand on the poker software market:
     - Programs that are used to analyze the game situation;
     - Programs that analyze data about opponents;
     - Programs that can play without human intervention - poker bots;
     - Programs that are used for communication between players in the same virtual room;
   All programs of this kind as input data ask for the current hand history.
   Hand history, programs form intercepting messages to the poker table from the room or read the dealer chat (poker room).
   Recently, the leading poker rooms have adopted a policy of supporting recreational players and are increasingly sticking to any attempts by regulars to quickly find amateurs at cash tables and beat them. As a rule, regulars use poker software in the game. In this regard, poker rooms prohibit the use of all the above types of poker programs. Punishment - ban account.
   How can the rooms determine that a player is using forbidden software? The poker client - the program that you install to play poker, contains all the tools to scan and transfer any requested information to the poker room. Those. if you have some kind of incomprehensible program in parallel with the poker client and if the poker room considers that it is a program from the list of prohibited, then the ban is inevitable, I'm not talking about interception of data from the room to the poker client. From the above, we can conclude: in no case should you install prohibited software on the same operating system where the poker client is installed, sooner or later the account ban is inevitable. But what should a novice player do in this situation? Only one way out - to use prohibited software on another operating system or another computer. But a reasonable question arises, how will the programs receive input data - hand history? After all, you can not intercept messages from the room to the client or read the chat.
   Exit - use technology OCR - optical image recognition. The basis is the use of artificial neural networks.
   A brief diagram of the operation of software based on OCR technology:
   The software scans the poker table at regular intervals (several times per second). The poker table is displayed either through a remote desktop ( RDP ) or through a virtual machine (ex. Virtual Box ). Next, the software highlights the poker objects (stacks, pot, hand cards, etc.). Then, using OCR, it recognizes these objects and forms a hand history at the time of scanning. Then it sends the hand history to the third-party poker software installed on the same operating system/computer. Receives advice on what to do. According to this scheme, PokerOCR works.
   What it gives the player - the fear of making the wrong move disappears, the correct thinking is developed, the player gains experience. The player gets indisputable advantage in the game, he is armed and always ready to make a logical decision at any time of the game. All this leads to a positive game! .
      What gives developers prohibited software - getting the program to the prohibited list puts an end to its further use and development. PokerOCR gives life to such programs, users who have previously purchased this software - benefit from its further use.

 Good luck in the game!

 Team PokerOCR