SikuliX1

May 15, 2026 Β· View on GitHub


SikuliX


SikuliX1

Historical SikuliX1 codebase β€” mirrored under oculix-org.


Status Active fork License


🎯 Where you probably want to go

You want to…Go to
Use SikuliX todayπŸ‘‰ oculix-org/Oculix β€” the active fork. Java 17+, current releases (v3.0.3 stable, v4.0 in flight).
Report a bug or request a featureπŸ‘‰ oculix-org/Oculix/issues
Read the public documentationπŸ‘‰ docs.oculix.org
See RaiMan's original upstreamπŸ‘‰ RaiMan/SikuliX1 β€” archived March 2026 by its creator
Browse the legacy SikuliX1 codeYou're here. Read-only mirror.

What is SikuliX (briefly)

SikuliX uses computer vision (OpenCV) to identify and interact with anything visible on a screen β€” 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 4.10 (via Apertix), Java 17+, working VNC stack, Android 12+ ADB, PaddleOCR option, and 22 native-reviewed locales β†’ oculix-org/Oculix.


πŸ™ Heritage

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

  • 2003 Β· MIT CSAIL β€” Rob Miller's UI Design Group launches the visual automation research project that would become Sikuli.
  • 2009 Β· UIST paper β€” @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.
  • 2010–2023 Β· SikuliX1 β€” @RaiMan (Raimund Hocke) takes over as sole maintainer, evolving the project through Java 8 β†’ 11, multi-platform fixes, OCR integration, and 13 years of patient stewardship.
  • March 2026 Β· oculix-org β€” RaiMan archives the upstream and transmits stewardship; active development continues as OculiX.

Massive gratitude to all four β€” 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.


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