Run OCR on Screen

Performs OCR on the screen.

This activity is used to perform OCR on a user-specified screen area.

Area Settings

• UI Element Selector: DesktopElement Argument Select a UI Element or Window on the screen. Either the Desktop Area or the UI Element Selector properties should have input values that specify the area in which the specified image may appear.

• Desktop Area: Specify an area (x,y,width,height) in Desktop. Either the Desktop Area or the UI Element Selector properties should have input values that specify the area in which the specified image may appear. Units in pixels.

Configure

• Mode: Specifies the mode. The available options are:

  • Auto - If selected, the activity will take a screenshot of the topmost window.

  • TopMostWindow - If selected, the activity will either use the UI Element Selector or Desktop Area Rectangle to take the screenshot.

OCR Options

• Crop Region: Specifies the region on the document to apply the OCR.

• Intermediate Save Path: Specifies the location where intermediate files are stored. If not specified files will be stored in the Windows Temp folder.

• Language: Specifies the text language present in the document.

• Profile: Specifies a set of optimized preprocessing steps for a given task. By default, the value is set to SceenScrape.

• Save Intermediate Files?: If set to True all intermediate images created during preprocessing will be saved to disk.

• Timeout: Specifies the timeout in milliseconds to wait for the OCR operation to complete.

Timeout

Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait until the specified element is found. By default, the value is set to 1000 milliseconds (10 sec)

Output

• Extracted Text: String Variable Specify a variable name that stores the extracted text from the screen.