Abbyy Screen OCR

UiPath.AbbyyEmbedded.Activities.AbbyyScreenOCR

Important: 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