The OCR Action can be used for recognition of images that contains the Latin and numeric characters only.

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1 OCR Overview OCR Action OCR Action Properties Add Images to Recording Capture New Image Choose New Image Choose Recorder Variable Overview OCR action group is intended for automatic image recognition and writing the recognized text to a Recorder variable of string type. The action is NOT recorded automatically and should be added to the recording by hand. Use case: In automated task you can face a point, when it is necessary to copy textual information from an image, desktop application, applets, like Java, Adobe Flash or any others of this kind. Such information cannot be copied directly with the keyboard or mouse, so you can add the image to or take a screenshot in the OCR action to be processed by the OCR plugin to recognize and extract the text. Note The OCR Action can be used for recognition of images that contains the Latin and numeric characters only. Attention Before playing your recording make sure, that the OCR plugin is running, so far it is not launched automatically, but on demand Click the RPA Express tray icon to open the menu. Make sure the OCR is running. If it is not so, click Start to launch OCR

2 3. Wait until the OCR state changes to Running: OCR license limitations: amount: 10k pages per license input formats: image files only (TIFF, PNG, JPG, GIF) output formats: TXT and HTML OCR Action You can add the OCR action manually when editing a recording by dragging it from the Actions Library to the Actions Flow.

3 OCR Action Properties As the OCR Action has been added to Action Flow, you can set the Action properties: The OCR Action has the following properties: Capture new image the image for the action captured by the Recorder. Choose new image the image for the action is chosen from the existing image files on your machine. Put OCR result into variable a Recorder Variable linked to receive the text recognized from the image by OCR. Advanced Wait a delay before the action starts (in milliseconds). Comments description of the action. Add Images to Recording There are two ways to add an image to your recording for recognition: you can capture an image or add an existing image to the recording. Capture New Image 1. Click Capture new image in the Action Properties window.

4 2. The countdown of 5 seconds starts in the right bottom corner of your screen.: Note The countdown duration is adjustable. It is set in the Recorder Preferences ( see more information) During the countdown you should switch to the application to capture the image from. When the countdown stops, select the region to be captured. The image is captured and displayed in the Action Properties window: Now you can adjust the anchor area to explicitly mark a place on the image with static information and the OCR area containing the text to be recognized. 1. Anchor area excludes irrelevant or dynamic elements and creates a reference point for the Bot on the screen to calculate the distance to the OCR area. 2. OCR area creates a placeholder, where the text to be recognized appears. Click the image in the Action Properties:

5 8. The Set the Anchor and OCR areas window opens with highlighted 1. Anchor area (1) 2. OCR area (2) 9. Use the spinners to mark the static information as the Anchor area (1) and select the placeholder for text as the OCR area (2):

6 Hint You can increase/decrease the value in the spinner for 1 with the Up/Down Arrow keys or for 10 with the Page Up/Page Down keys. 10. Click OK to complete the procedure. Choose New Image This option allows you choosing an existing image and add it to the OCR Action Go to the folder, where your images are stored. Select an image (or images) to add to the recording. Copy/paste or drag and drop the image(-s) to the folder with your recording in the Media Files window. Choose the Copy files option.

7 This option is recommended, as the files are located in your RPA Express workspace and can be managed with the Media Files browser. The second option creates links to the files in the external location. It can produce some unnecessary problems, that are avoided by choosing the previous option. 5. The image(-s) are copied to your recording: Now click Choose new image, select the image in the Choose image window and click OK: The image is added to the OCR action. Now adjust the anchor and OCR areas. Click the image to open the window to set the Anchor and OCR areas. Use the spinners to mark the static information as the Anchor area and select the OCR area right over the place, where the text to be recognized can appear. Click OK to complete the procedure. Choose Recorder Variable A Recorder Variable is necessary to get the result of image recognition by OCR. The output from OCR is a text, so the variable should be declared as a string. Create a Recorder variable and set it type to String in the Recorder Variables: In the OCR Action Properties window assign the Recorder variable to receive the text recognized by OCR:

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