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Coordinate <-> image matching seems to be the job of the coder. I have not looked at the code yet but I am sure it does not do screenshots. What it probably does is this:

-You provide an image.

-You provide x,y coordinates.

-The tool/library calculates a heatmap from the relationship between coordinates

-The tool overlays the heatmap 1:1 to the image

The Google screenshot and clicking demo is just an example of a possible implementation. You can use heatmaps for many many other things so this surely does not limit itself (nor prefer) to website click tracking. ;-)



Exactly, it expects you to provide the image. The coordinates are currently expected to be absolute and pixel-specific, where 55,11 is 55 pixels inward and 11 downward.

If there was sufficient interest, I could implement relative positioning as well, where they resolve to a percentage of the source image.




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