Abbyy Screen OCR

UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities.AbbyyScreenOCR

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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.

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image using Abbyy OCR Engine. It can be used with other OCR activities exclusively within the purpose of screen scraping.

Here are a few examples of activities that can be used together with Abby Screen OCR: Click OCR Text, Hover OCR Text, Get OCR Text, Find OCR Text Position, CV Screen Scope, CV Get Text.

This activity will not work within the following activities: Digitize Document, Read PDF With OCR or Read XPS With OCR.

note

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."

Properties

Common

• DisplayName - The display name of the activity.

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 - Specifies which embedded engine must be used for image processing. There are two options, as follows: Basic - Supports a wide range of languages, Extended - Contains extra support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Check the list of all available languages for the Basic pack at the bottom of this page.
• 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.

  Basic Pack - 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

  Extended Pack - Languages
  ChinesePRC
  ChineseTaiwan
  Japanese
  Korean
  KoreanHangul