SikuliX1

Historical SikuliX1 codebase — mirrored under oculix-org.

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🎯 Where you probably want to go

You want to…	Go to
Use SikuliX today	👉 oculix-org/Oculix — the active successor. Java 17+, current releases on the releases page.
Report a bug or request a feature	👉 oculix-org/Oculix/issues
Read the public documentation	👉 docs.oculix.org
See RaiMan's original upstream	👉 RaiMan/SikuliX1 — archived March 2026 by its creator
Browse the legacy SikuliX1 code	You're here. Read-only mirror, frozen at SikuliX 2.0.5.

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What is SikuliX (briefly)

SikuliX uses computer vision (OpenCV) to identify and interact with anything visible on a screen — Windows, macOS, Linux. It locates GUI elements through image recognition, then drives them with simulated mouse and keyboard input. No access to source code, DOM, or accessibility APIs required.

The original motto, still valid : "If you can see it, you can automate it."

For the modern continuation with OpenCV 4.x (via Apertix), Java 17+, working VNC stack, Android ADB, PaddleOCR option, an MCP server and 22 native-reviewed locales → oculix-org/Oculix.

Migrating from SikuliX ? Same API, new coordinates :

<!-- before -->
<groupId>com.sikulix</groupId>
<artifactId>sikulixapi</artifactId>

<!-- after -->
<groupId>io.github.oculix-org</groupId>
<artifactId>oculixapi</artifactId>

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🙏 Heritage

A 23-year lineage of MIT-licensed open work :

• 2003 · MIT CSAIL — Rob Miller's UI Design Group launches the visual automation research project that would become Sikuli.
• 2009 · UIST paper — @doubleshow (Tom Yeh) and @vgod (Tsung-Hsiang Chang) formally introduce Sikuli at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. The codebase eventually lands under the sikuli GitHub organization.
• 2010–2026 · SikuliX1 — @RaiMan (Raimund Hocke) takes over as sole maintainer, evolving the project through Java 8 → 11, multi-platform fixes, OCR integration, and sixteen years of patient stewardship, up to the final SikuliX 2.0.5.
• March 2026 · oculix-org — RaiMan archives the upstream and transmits stewardship; active development continues as OculiX.

Massive gratitude to all four — without them, this project simply doesn't exist. The MIT license they chose 23 years ago is still in place today, and that's not an accident.

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_{MIT-licensed. The torch is carried forward at oculix-org/Oculix.}