About the UI Automation activity package

The UI Automation activity package contains all the basic activities used for creating automation projects.

These activities enable the robots to:

• Simulate human interaction, such as performing mouse and keyboard commands or typing and extracting text, for basic UI automation.
• Use technologies such as OCR or image recognition to perform Image and Text Automation.
• Create triggers based on UI behavior, thus enabling the Robot to execute certain actions when specific events occur on a machine.
• Perform browser interaction and window manipulation.

To create automations, choose one of the following experiences:

• Low-code - Use low-code automations paired with Classic, Modern, and Computer Vision activities. Low-code automations use a visual interface with drag-and-drop activities from activity packages, making it accesible for a broad user base.
• Coded - Use coded automations, paired with UI Automation APIs. Coded automations, which utilize UiPath services (equivalent to activity packages) and their corresponding APIs (equivalent to activities), allow you to create automations using code. Moreover, coded automations can use .NET NuGet packages, and custom C# classes that you build within UiPath Studio. The UI Automation activity package supports APIs starting with v23.10.3.

Important: Automation processes that use UI Automation activities cannot run under a locked screen.

Note:

• Starting with v20.10.5, the UI Automation Next package has been deprecated and the existing UI Automation package has been expanded to include all the modern features previously available in UI Automation Next. You are also able to install the unified UI Automation activity package even on Studio versions 2020.4.1 and lower. This displays all the classic and modern activities in the activities pane. Read more about the Modern Design Experience.
• Starting with UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities v19.11, all Abbyy related activities have been moved to a separate package. Install the UiPath.Abbyy.Activities package if you want to use its activities for OCR, Cloud OCR, classification, and data extraction.
• As of v18.3.6877.28298, the UiPath.Core.Activities package was split into the UI Automation and System packages. Find out more about the Core Activities Split.

Dependencies

The UI Automation activity package contains the following internally-developed dependencies:

• UiPath.Vision - enables the functionality of OCR and Computer Vision engines.
• UiPath - an essential library for UI Automation activities.

The UiPath.Vision dependency package includes third-party libraries. These external dependencies are used exclusively for the purpose of enabling the implementation of specific activities in the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package. Here are some examples:

• AbbyyOnlineSdk.dll - used exclusively in the Abbyy Cloud OCR activity, at run-time, as a wrapper over the Abbyy online service calls.

• Interop.FREngine.v11.dll - used exclusively in the Abbyy OCR activity, at run-time, as a wrapper over the Abbyy FineReader Engine calls.

• Interop.MODI.dll - used exclusively in the Microsoft OCR activity, at run-time, when executed on a Windows 7 or Windows Server machine.

Particular scenarios might require management of strict UI Automation dependencies versions. For example, a language for the Tesseract OCR engine must be manually installed per UiPath.Vision version. This means that for processes using that language you need to use the corresponding UI Automation activity package. You can find out more on this page.

The table below enlists the dependencies shipped with each version of the package:

UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities	UiPath.Vision	UiPath
24.10.7	3.14.2	24.10.108.16096
24.10.6	3.14.2	24.10.106.53365
24.10.5	3.14.2	24.10.106.53365
24.10.3	3.13.3	24.10.94.62718
24.10.2	3.13.2	24.10.94.62718
24.10.1	3.13.2	24.10.93.21985
24.10.0	3.13.2	24.10.93.21985
23.10.13	3.11.2	23.10.97.53968
23.10.12	3.11.1	23.10.90.55899
23.10.11	3.11.1	23.10.81.50671
23.10.9	3.11.1	23.10.71.64399
23.10.8	3.11.1	23.10.71.64399
23.10.7	3.11.1	23.10.71.64399
23.10.6	3.11.1	23.10.71.64399
23.10.3	3.11.1	23.10.69.1489
23.4.11	3.10.1	23.4.81.50665
23.4.10	3.10.1	23.4.67.58671
23.4.9	3.10.1	22.4.62.58438
23.4.8	3.10.1	23.4.62.63011
23.4.7	3.10.1	23.4.60.36194
23.4.6	3.10.1	23.4.59.15687
23.4.5	3.10.1	23.4.57.3408
23.4.4	3.10.1	23.4.57.3408
22.10.10	3.6.0	22.10.67.59238
22.10.9	3.6.0	22.10.67.59238
22.10.8	3.6.0	22.10.60.25726
22.10.7	3.6.0	23.4.60.24910
22.10.6	3.6.0	22.10.59.14500
22.10.5	3.6.0	22.10.52.8892
22.10.4	3.6.0	22.10.49.23
22.10.3	3.6.0	22.10.46.47635
22.10.2	3.6.0	22.10.46.47635
22.4.12	3.3.2	22.4.67.58669
22.4.11	3.3.0	22.4.67.58669
22.4.10	3.3.0	22.4.62.58438
22.4.9	3.3.0	22.4.60.25939
22.4.8	3.3.0	22.4.52.11405
22.4.7	3.3.0	22.4.42.61951
22.4.6	3.3.0	22.4.38.42025
22.4.5	3.3.0	22.4.38.42025
22.4.4	3.3.0	22.4.38.42025
21.10.10	3.1.4	21.10.67.58666
21.10.9	3.1.4	21.10.60.24919
21.10.8	3.1.4	21.10.49.13436
21.10.7	3.1.4	21.10.42.64905
21.10.6	3.1.4	21.10.40.21933
21.10.5	3.1.4	21.10.34.30369
21.10.4	3.1.4	21.10.32.57908
21.10.3	3.1.4	21.10.30.58966
21.4.4	3.0.1	21.4.25.3292
21.4.3	3.0.1	21.4.23.31065
20.10.15	2.2.0	20.10.8676.29744
20.10.14	2.2.0	20.10.8558.20688
20.10.13	2.2.0	20.10.8363.32849
20.10.12	2.2.0	20.10.8242.23238
20.10.11	2.2.0	20.10.7992.24819
20.10.10	2.2.0	20.10.7810.17763
20.10.9	2.2.0	20.10.7641.24102
20.10.8	2.2.0	20.10.7641.24102
20.10.7	2.2.0	20.10.7641.24102
20.10.6	2.2.0	20.10.7585.27318
20.10.5	2.2.0	20.10.7585.27318
20.4.3	2.0.3	20.4.7537.15740
20.4.2	2.0.3	20.4.7472.17184
20.4.1	2.0.3	20.4.7422.14731
19.11.5	2.0.1	19.10.7601.15369
19.11.4	2.0.1	19.10.7601.15369
19.11.3	2.0.1	19.10.7452.28108
19.11.2	2.0.1	19.10.7312.25504
19.11.1	2.0.0	19.10.7312.25504
19.11.0	2.0.0	19.10.7275.19994
19.10.1	1.8.1	19.10.7243.31457
19.7.0	1.6.1	19.7.7128.27029
19.6.0	1.6.0	19.6.7108.25473
19.5.0	1.6.0	19.5.7079.28746
19.4.2	1.5.0	19.4.7068.19937
19.4.1	1.5.0	19.4.7054.14370
19.3.0	1.4.0	10.0.7004.31775
19.2.0	1.3.0	10.0.6957.21531
19.1.0	1.2.0	10.0.6957.21531
18.4.8	1.2.1	10.0.7772.19184
18.4.7	1.2.1	10.0.7445.17204
18.4.6	1.2.0	10.0.7194.26789
18.4.5	1.2.0	10.0.7020.22745
18.4.4	1.2.0	10.0.6992.20526
18.4.3	1.2.0	10.0.6929.25268
18.4.2	1.2.0	10.0.6913.22031
18.3.6962.28967	1.1.0	9.0.6962.24417
18.3.6897.22543	1.1.0	9.0.6893.27943
18.3.6877.28298	1.1.0	9.0.6877.24355