Speeding up ImageSearch?

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Hi, Community.

I use ImageSearch a lot to automate tasks on my desktop, and I recently wrote a script to play a card game. The player is dealt 5 cards, so I run a loop of 52 ImageSearch commands to recognize the first card, then another loop of 52 to recognize the 2nd...the 3rd...4th...and 5th.

The method works fine, but it takes a little time to run through 260 ImageSearch commands. Is there a way to speed up the process?

Thanks!





Ex.

Loop
{

ImageSearch,FoundX, FoundY, 671, 1030, 764, 1122, C:\Users\Me\Desktop\CardFolder\AceSpades.png
If errorlevel=0
{
break
}

ImageSearch,FoundX, FoundY, 671, 1030, 764, 1122, C:\Users\Me\Desktop\CardFolder\KingSpades.png
If errorlevel=0
{
break
}

.......

.....

}

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260 ImageSearch commands

just lol

this doesnt sound like a task for image search at all. cant u identify the cards by a pixel? post an image of a couple of them. then u could use pixelsearching

as for how to speed up image search in no particular order:
scan a smaller area
look for a smaller image
break up ur search space in chunks and parallelize the task(not always applicable)
parallelize the task itself(ie 1 thread per card)