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Abbyy Document OCR

UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities.AbbyyDocumentOCR

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The UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities package has been deprecated and is currently out of support. Also, the package is unlisted from the UiPath Studio Manage Packages official feed. Check the Deprecation timeline for more details.

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If you want to use this OCR activity from package UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities v1.2.0 in Studio v19.10, please install the UiPath.CoreIPC package, version 2.0.1 or higher."

Extracts a string and associated information about the textual content of document images using Abbyy OCR Engine. The activity can be used in any document scenario in which an OCR engine is needed, for instance, the Digitize Document activity or the Read PDF With OCR activity.

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Abbyy Document OCR requires your Robot to be connected to an Orchestrator instance that has ABBYY FRE12 units available.This activity is only compatible with Orchestrator 20.10 or above

Properties

Common

  • DisplayName - The display name of the activity.

Input

  • Image - The image that you want to process. This field supports only Image variables.

Misc

  • Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.

Options

  • CustomRecognitionProfilePath - Specifies the full path to a custom built Recognition Profile. This field supports only strings and String variables.
  • EnginePack - Provides the embedded engine that needs to be used from the two available options. The Basic EnginePack contains support for most of the languages except those with CJK characters. The CJK EnginePack contains support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language
  • ExtractWords - If selected, the on-screen position of each detected word is extracted.
  • Language - The language used by the OCR engine to extract the text from the UI element or image. The language name must be fully written, such as "English", "Japanese", "Romanian". The default value is "English". If you want to use one of the following languages ChinesePRC, ChineseTaiwan, Japanese, Korean, and KoreanHangul you need to install a separate bundle package available in the Manage Packages menu.
  • Scale - The scaling factor of the selected UI element or image. The higher the number is, the more you enlarge the image. This can provide a better OCR read and it is recommended with small images. If you want to scale down, values between 0 and 1 are also accepted. By default, the value is 1.

Output

  • Confidence - The resulting confidence score, stored in an Int32 variable. This field supports only Int32 variables.
  • Result - The text extracted by the OCR engine along with their on-screen position, stored in a KeyValuePair<Rectangle,String>. This field supports only KeyValuePair<Rectangle,String>.
  • Text - The text extracted by the OCR engine, stored in a String variable. This field supports only String variables.
Supported Languages
Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afrikaans
Agul
Albanian
Altaic
Arabic
ArmenianEastern
ArmenianGrabar
ArmenianWestern
Awar
Aymara
AzeriCyrillic
AzeriLatin
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Bulgarian
Burmese
Buryat
Catalan
Chamorro
Chechen
Chukcha
Chuvash
Corsican
CrimeanTatar
Croatian
Crow
Czech
Danish
Dargwa
Digits
Dungan
Dutch
DutchBelgian
English
EskimoCyrillic
EskimoLatin
Esperanto
Estonian
Even
Evenki
Faeroese
Farsi
Fijian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Friulian
GaelicScottish
Gagauz
Galician
Ganda
German
GermanLuxembourg
GermanNewSpelling
Greek
Guarani
Hani
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Indonesian
Ingush
Interlingua
Irish
Italian
Kabardian
Kalmyk
KarachayBalkar
Karakalpak
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Khakas
Khanty
Kikuyu
Kirgiz
Kongo
Koryak
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Lak
Lappish
Latvian
Lezgin
Lithuanian
Luba
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malinke
Maltese
Mansi
Maori
Mari
Maya
Miao
Minankabaw
Mohawk
Mongol
Mordvin
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
NorwegianBokmal
NorwegianNynorsk
Nyanja
Occidental
Ojibway
Ossetic
Papiamento
PidginEnglish
Polish
PortugueseStandard
PortugueseBrazilian
Provencal
Quechua
RhaetoRomanic
Romanian
RomanianMoldavia
Romany
Ruanda
Rundi
Russian
RussianWithAccent
Samoan
Selkup
Serbian
SerbianCyrillic
SerbianLatin
Shona
Sioux
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Spanish
Sunda
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish
Tabassaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar
Thai
Tinpo
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkish
Turkmen
TurkmenLatin
Tuvin
Udmurt
UighurCyrillic
UighurLatin
Ukrainian
UzbekCyrillic
UzbekLatin
Vietnamese
Visayan
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yiddish
Zapotec
Zulu
CJK Languages Bundle
ChinesePRC
ChineseTaiwan
Japanese
Korean
KoreanHangul