About Pricing for Using UiPath Document OCR with "Read PDF Text" Activity

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a project where I need to extract text from scanned PDF documents using UiPath. I came across the “Read PDF Text” activity and noticed that it allows you to select an OCR engine, including UiPath Document OCR.

I would like to know:

  • Is there a cost associated with using UiPath Document OCR in this activity?
  • If so, how is the pricing calculated (e.g., per page, per character, etc.)?
  • Are there any free quotas available for testing or development purposes?

I appreciate any clarification or guidance you can provide. Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

  1. Is there a cost associated with using UiPath Document OCR in this activity?
    Ans -
    Yes, UiPath Document OCR is a premium OCR engine and requires a valid Document Understanding (DU) license to use it.

  2. If so, how is the pricing calculated (e.g., per page, per character, etc.)?
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  • Digitization (OCR): Costs 0.04 Platform Units per processed page
  • Extraction (e.g., using ML Extractor): Costs 0.2 Platform Units per page
  • So, if you’re only digitizing scanned PDFs using Document OCR, expect 0.04 units per page.
  1. Are there any free quotas available for testing or development purposes?
    Ans - OCR engines like Tesseract, Microsoft OCR, and Omnipage are free.

If you are using the Community version, I’d recommend experimenting with the free OCR engines first to validate your workflow.

I hope this answers to your queries. If yes then kindly mark it solved.

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Thanks for the answer, but that’s exactly where my confusion begins.

I have read that you need to have a DU valid license to use the engine, but I don’t have one. Although I have tested the extraction and it’s currently working, I am not interested in anything about the DU environment; I only want to extract text from scanned PDFs and then extract data from the string with regex.

I don’t want to use this approach if it’s going to cost, but I don’t find anything on the forum or in the documentation talking about using this exact activity with the UiPath Document OCR. Also, this activity doesn’t require any API key or anything else on the configuration panel of the activity.

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Could you please try with Free OCR engines?

I found a video, I hope it can help you. Please find below a video link. Select any engine, excluding the cloud one and the UiPath Documented OCR.

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