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Document Understanding Activities

Last updated Dec 5, 2024

Release notes

Package Updates

October 3, 2024

Upcoming removal

By August 2025, we will be removing the UiPath.Abbyy.Activities and UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities packages. To prepare for this removal, you are required to perform the following steps to erase all objects associated with UiPath.Abbyy.Activities and UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities:

  • Remove any activity from within these two activity packages from your automations. These include the following: Abbyy OCR, Abbyy Cloud OCR, FlexiCapture Classifier, FlexiCapture Extractor, FlexiCapture Scope, Classify Document (FlexiCapture), Process Document (FlexiCapture), Validate Document (FlexiCapture), Export Document (FlexiCapture), Get Field (FlexiCapture), GetTable (FlexiCapture), Prepare Validation Station Data, Abbyy Screen OCR, and Abbyy Document OCR.
  • Uninstall the activity package from all your projects and automations.
  • Delete UiPath.Abbyy.Activities and UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities packages, along with any dependencies related to Abbyy, stored in your local storage and Orchestrator feeds.

After August 2025, you won't be able to execute any Abbyy or AbbyyEmbedded activity on your UiPath Robots.

The alternative to UiPath.Abbyy.Activities is to replace it with UiPath.IntelligenctOCR.Activities and its connected functionality. The alternative for UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities is UiPath.OCR.Activities, which now supports a multitude of languages through its activities: UiPath Document OCR, UiPath Screen OCR, and UiPath Extended Languages OCR.

Visit the Deprecation timeline for more information.

August 4, 2022

Based on compliance requirements, starting August 2022, the UiPath.Abbyy.Activities package is unlisted from the UiPath Studio Manage Packages official feed. Already installed package versions can still be used and are not affected by this change.

We continue to offer support and upgrades for this package on-demand only, via our Support channel.

You can submit your request by creating a ticket here. Following internal review of the request, the solicited package is sent to you. Please note that some requests may not be honored because of regulatory restrictions.

28 November 2022

UiPath is no longer a reseller of Abbyy products. If you already purchased Abbyy through UiPath, please contact your dedicated Sales Representative for more information.

v1.7.0

Release Date: 9 May 2022

Improvements

The UiPath.Abbyy.Activities package has been upgraded to .NET5 core. This change implies having the .NET5 installed on your machine if the package is run within a non-Windows legacy workflow.

v1.5.0

Release Date: 6 October 2021

Improvements

Due to improvements to image processing algorithms, changes might appear in the digitization of certain documents.

The UiPath.Abbyy.Activities package has been upgraded to .NET5. While both .NET versions continue to be supported, the .NET5 projects can only work on 64-bit architectures.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that was causing the OCR engine to return an error on certain air-gapped systems.

Known Issues

  • If you want to use any OCR activity from this package in Studio v2019.10, please install the UiPath.CoreIPC package, version 2.0.1 or higher.

v1.4.2

Release Date: 29 March 2021

Improvements

Extended the support for a newer version of FlexiCapture Engine, namely 12.1.24.10.

Updated support for the new Studio version.

v1.3.0

Release Date: 5 October 2020

Improvements

Starting with this release, the package is validated for use in C# projects.

v1.2.0

Release Date: 4 May 2020

New Features and Improvements

The IntelligentOCR Scope activity has been renamed to FlexiCapture Scope and added to the UiPath.Abbyy.Activitites package.

The FlexiCapture Extractor activity can now support fields of type CheckmarkGroup.
A new option named UsePdfTextLayerOnly is now available for the Flexicapture Extractor and Process Document activities that can specify if the text layer should be used without applying image recognition.

v1.0.2

Release Date: 19 February 2020

Improvements

This patch upgrades the OCR engines in the Abbyy package to support TLS v1.2, as the older v1.0 and v1.1 are approaching end-of-life.

v1.0.1

Release Date: 18 December 2019

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the inability to use the Save function for Validation Station when the Prepare Validation Station activity was run.

v1.0

Release Date: 9 December 2019

New Features and Improvements

We now have a package available especially for all Abbyy products, including activities for OCR, Cloud OCR, classification, and data extraction. You can find them all under the UiPath.Abbyy.Activities package.

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