Originally posted by buschips
Because Poker-Copilot is using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) as far as I know.
PT-guys don't wanna use this because its inaccurate and needs (too) much performance.
You are correct, OCR is horribly inaccurate for the needs of multitabling online poker players. OCR technology requires that you
- Match the table size so the font can be read
- do not overlap tables becaue the text must be accessable for the OCR engine to work
- do not have any unrecognizable characters
- requires an extra window open to check that the data which is screen scraped using OCR is accurate, it is often incorrect.
We commend Poker-Copilot for trying to use OCR, but this is a technology that all of the other top-tier tracking companies have already previously tried and abandoned due to the high failure rate. For example we tested Poker-Copilot's implementation of Zoom, and found numerous screen name errors... it was an unsustainable process from our perspective. We wish them well, but OCR is just not a viable solution.
We are preparing to launch PokerTracker 4 for OSX in the beginning of 2013, sadly Apple's OS is still too restrictive to allow us to place a HUD on any fast poker tables. Over time we hope that the poker sites begin to provide us with an API that allows PT4 to access the data needed to know which player is seated at the table - until then we sugest using a Windows VM or Bootcamp on your Mac to play at Zoom tables.
