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Document Understanding Activities
Last updated Oct 8, 2024

Release notes

v3.21.1

Release date: October 3, 2024

Note: This package version is compatible with UIAutomation.Activities versions that are 24.10.0 or later.

What's new

Enhance the capability of your projects to process documents by using the UiPath Extended Languages OCR which is now generally available (GA).

Upcoming deprecations

The UiPath Chinese, Japanese, Korean OCR will be deprecated starting with January 2025. We recommend using the UiPath Extended Languages OCR instead. Check the deprecation timeline for more information about upcoming deprecations and removals.

v3.20.5

Release date: 13 August 2024

We've upgraded some internal dependencies for enhanced performance.

v3.15.2

Release date: 15 July 2024

We've improved product stability by updating our common dependencies to the most recent versions. This upgrade is automatic and doesn't require any action from your side.

v3.11.1

Release date: 15 July 2024

We've improved product stability by updating our common dependencies to the most recent versions. This upgrade is automatic and doesn't require any action from your side.

v3.6.3

Release date: 15 July 2024

We've improved product stability by updating our common dependencies to the most recent versions. This upgrade is automatic and doesn't require any action from your side.

v3.17.3

Release date: 5 June 2024

We've improved product stability by updating our common dependencies to the most recent versions. This upgrade is automatic and doesn't require any action from your side.

v3.20.3

Release date: 27 May 2024

We've improved product stability by updating our common dependencies to the most recent versions. This upgrade is automatic and doesn't require any action from your side.

v3.20.2

Release date: 29 April 2024

These release notes contain all the updates made between November 2023 and March 2024.

New features

We are excited to announce that you can now use the UiPath Extended Languages OCR activity to extract information from the user interface of your documents.

v3.17.2

Release date: 20 March 2024

Minor improvements

We're constantly working to improve your UiPath.OCR.Activities experience. Even though there are no major changes with this release, we made minor improvements and fixes to stabilize the behavior for some of the available features presented in the activity.

v3.17.1

Release date: 24 October 2023

We are constantly working to improve your UiPath Document Understanding experience. Even though there are no major significant changes with this release, we made sure to bring minor improvements and accessibility fixes to our product.

v3.15.1

Release date: 26 April 2023

Bug Fixes

We've updated the package dependencies and fixed the Method not found error thrown when an Invoke Code activity was added to the workflow.

v3.12.0

Release date: 15 December 2022

New features & Improvements

The Studio user interface is now available in Traditional Chinese.

v3.11.0

Release date: 24 October 2022

New features & Improvements

The OCR for Chinese, Japanese and Korean activity is now an official activity of the UiPath.OCR.Activities package.

The API Key field of the UiPath Document OCR and OCR for Chinese, Japanese and Korean activities are automatically populated with the key retrieved from the project settings, or from the Document Understanding Cloud Platform.

v3.10.0

Release Date: 22 September 2022

New Features and Improvements

The Chinese, Japanese, Korean OCR activity is now an official activity of the UiPath.OCR.Activities package.

The UiPath.OCR.Activities package has been upgraded to .NET6.

The API Key field of the UiPath Document OCR and Chinese, Japanese, Korean OCR activities are automatically populated with the key retrieved from the project settings, or from the Document Understanding Cloud Platform.

v3.6.2

Release Date: 9 May 2022

New Features and Improvements

The UiPath.OCR.Activities package has been upgraded to .NET5 portable, allowing you to run them on Linux robots.

The UiPath.OCR.Activities package has been enhanced with handwriting capabilities.

The OCR for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean activity is now available as Public Preview.

v3.3.2

Release Date: 18 October 2021

New Features and Improvements

If you experience timeouts due to long processing time, you can now use the newly added Timeout parameter for UiPath Document OCR and UiPath Screen OCR activities to increase the service call timeout.

The UiPath.OCR.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.

Added the UseLocalServer property for the UiPath Document OCR and UiPath Screen OCR activities which now makes it possible to run these OCR activities locally on the robot machine.

Improvements have been made to optimize the OCR results on scanned documents. Best results are obtained by keeping the skew angle between +/- 20 degrees.

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

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that was causing the UiPath Document OCR and UiPath Screen OCR activities to stop working when a proxy with authentication was configured by the user on their machine.
  • 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.

v3.0.0

Release Date: 25 March 2021

Improvements

Updated support for the new Studio version.

Additional improvements in image pre-processing. Minor changes in the OCR results might be observed, compared to the previous version.

v2.4.1

Release Date: 6 November 2020

Improvements

Improvements in image pre-processing.

v2.4.0

Release Date: 29 September 2020

New Features and Improvements

A new OCR engine is added to the pre-existing list of OCR engines, namely UiPath Document OCR which is now publicly available for processing West European languages on regular documents.

v2.0.0

Release Date: 4 May 2020

New Features and Improvements

The package has been updated to UiPath.OCR.Activities and it includes the UiPath Screen OCR activity which can be used as an OCR option in the Screen Scraping wizard or other instances that are using an OCR engine.

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