When comparing SikuliX vs T-Plan Robot, the Slant community recommends T-Plan Robot for most people. In the question“What are the best generic (image based) GUI functional test frameworks?” T-Plan Robot is ranked 1st while SikuliX is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose T-Plan Robot is:
Uses Tesseract OCR for image text recognition.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
SikuliX is cross-platform and available on the most popular systems (Windows, OSX and Linux).
Pro Simple text recognition
SikuliX uses Tesseract OCR to have basic text recognition which can be used to search text in images.
Pro OpenSource
It's free and open source with the source code hosted on GitHub.
Pro Simple IDE
Pro Can run in different languages
Allows running scripts in Jypthon (Python) or JRuby (Ruby) and has also an API.
Pro Text recognition
Uses Tesseract OCR for image text recognition.
Pro Can inspect most GUI
Can introspect controls of apps written in popular platforms like .NET, Java and HTML for example.
Pro Has an open source edition
For everyone who prefers using free and open source software, version 2.x is available as OpenSource. Current enterprise edition is version 4.x so it's missing some features like Java-API, new look & feel and may be unmaintained.
Cons
Con Main features in paid edition
The free version is possibly unmaintained since early 2013 and only the paid version seems to remain active.