Modern automation frameworks assume one thing: structure.

• Selenium → DOM
• Playwright → Browser context
• Appium → Accessibility tree

But real-world systems don’t always give you that luxury.

Legacy terminals.
Proprietary POS systems.
Mainframes.
Remote desktops over VNC.
Embedded devices with no API.

So what do you do when there’s nothing to hook into?

You look at the screen.
You see a button.
You click it.

That’s exactly what we automate.

flowchart TD
    APP["🖥️ YOUR APPLICATION\nButtons · Fields · Tables · Pixels"]
    CAPTURE["📸 Screen Capture"]
    
    APP --> CAPTURE
    
    subgraph ENGINE["⚡ OCULIX ENGINE"]
        direction TB
        
        subgraph VISION["Vision Pipeline"]
            direction LR
            CV["OpenCV\nMatching"]
            OCR["PaddleOCR\nEasyOCR\nTesseract"]
            TPL["Template\nMatching"]
        end
        
        MATCH["✅ Match Found"]
        ACTION["🎯 Mouse / Keyboard Action"]
        
        VISION --> MATCH --> ACTION
    end
    
    CAPTURE --> ENGINE

No installation. No setup. No dependencies beyond Java.

# Requires Java 17
java -jar oculixide-3.0.1-win.jar
java -jar oculixide-3.0.1-macos.jar
java -jar oculixide-3.0.1-lux.jar

Example script:

click("login_button.png")
type("username", "admin")
type("password", "hunter2")
click("submit.png")
wait("dashboard.png", 10)

If it’s visible, it’s automatable.

SikuliX started as an MIT research project in 2009.

Maintained for over a decade by Raimund Hocke, it became a reference in visual automation.

In 2026, the project entered a new phase and is now maintained under oculix-org.

OculiX builds on that foundation — designed for:

• Distributed systems
• Remote execution (VNC / SSH)
• Modern OCR requirements
• Production-scale automation

Same philosophy. New capabilities.

SikuliX and OculiX are:

• Open source
• MIT licensed
• Free

No usage limits. No hidden constraints.

Commercial offerings (IDE, support) may come later.
The engine remains open.

We welcome contributions.

• Bug reports
• Feature requests
• Pull requests

If you rely on visual automation in production, your feedback matters.

Eggplant charges €50,000/year.

We don’t.

Because automation should not be gated behind enterprise pricing.
And because if you can see it…

You already know the rest.