OCR usage during automation

During automation, you might want to use Optical Character Recognition to extract text from documents, images, or UI controls or even to click on UI controls depending on the location of text on the application. IBM Robotic Process Automation has support for the use of three OCR providers that you can choose to use during automation.

• Configuring OCR usage
  Learn about each OCR provider and how to configure each one in order to use them properly.

• Supported languages
  Learn about the languages each provider supports. You will also learn how to override an language in case you need a non-supported language.

• Considerations about OCR accuracy
  Learn what affects the quality of the OCR results that the providers return.

• Using the Extract PDF Text tool to get text with OCR
  Learn how to use the Extract PDF Text tool on IBM RPA Studio to extract text from PDFs through Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

• Mapping an application with OCR using the recorder
  Explore different use cases involving OCR.

• Extracting text from an application's user interface with OCR
  Learn how you can extract text from an application's user interface (UI) through OCR.

• Clicking on controls based on text position
  Learn how you can use the Click by OCR (ocrClick) to click on controls based on texts.