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Hyland RPA Activities

Platform
Hyland RPA
Product
Activities
Release
Foundation 23.2
License

OCR

Description

Gets the text of a defined area related to an anchor.

Properties

Analyst

  • Display Name: Optional friendly name used for debugging, validation, exception handling, and activity tracking.
  • Description: Optional text for documentation purposes.

Common

  • Continue On Error: Continues the execution of the workflow even if an error occurs during the execution of the activity.

  • Delay Before: Delay time in milliseconds before the activity is executed. The default value is 250 milliseconds.

  • Delay After: Delay time in milliseconds after executing of the activity. The default value is 250 milliseconds.

  • Disable Log: Disables the logging functionality for this activity.

  • Disable Protocol: Disables the protocol functionality for this activity.

  • Exclude from Global Delay: Excludes this activity from the Global Delay functionality.

  • Timeout: Duration in milliseconds in which the activity tries to execute.

Input

  • Accuracy: Describes how much an image on the screen has to match the originally snipped image to be considered a match. Usually, 0.99 works well.
  • Auto Invert: If checked, both the template and the image are inverted for certain matching methods to ensure reliability. Usually checked state works well.
  • Image Representation: Defines on which image representation the search should be carried out. Usually GrayScale works well.
  • Region Relative to Anchor: After finding the snippet image on the screen, this region - relative to the found image - is used for further actions, for example read out using OCR in case of the Get Text by Anchor activity.
  • Search Region: The display region in pixels where the image is searched in. When empty the whole virtual screen including all monitors is used.
  • Template Matching Method: Gets or sets the similarity measure. Usually, CcoeffNormed works fine. See the section on template matching methods within the Hyland RPA Designer documentation for more information.

Output

  • Text: Output variable of the found text by ocr.
  • Words: Output of a list with all found words.

For more information, see Tesseract Engine.

Note: Do not wonder that you have to "draw" 2 rectangles. The first one is the anchor image, please make sure that this is constant for each process. The second one marks the area where the bot needs to read out the text via OCR.