There is a challenge which I’m currently looking at [image] 13.RPA Challenge - PDF Scrapping RPA Challenge Given the sample dummy PDF attached the output should be RPA dummy sample form .pdf (231.0 KB) Unit: 423 1: Verify 2: Start 3: Stop 4: n/a 5: Start … Basica…

I have a feeling that what is happening is that when the PDF is opened it opens up BIG and only 2 lines of the data that I am interested in are showing. I think this may be causing some of my problems in that maybe only the shown region is capable of being searched. Anyway will look into it.

OK that didn’t help, but I’ll keep the click ‘Fit on one page’ button in the code so I can see the whole pdf while the code is running. Chall13_PDFScraping.zip (415.9 KB)

What I’d like to do is use the Highlight activity to show the region that I’m searching for the tick box (when debugging) but I think that the highlight activity just accepts an element and I have a region (It has a clipping region property but I’m not sure how that works as if I put values in the l…

Just updating this in the hope that someone will look at it and offer a suggestion. The first thing I want to do is in a screen shot image of a front end system (to mimic citrix) is to find all the occurences of a particular image (using Find image matches) then using the position of each of the im…

FindSelectedCheckbox.xaml (9.3 KB) Open your pdf with zoom in to 125% and run attached sample, it will highlight all checked boxes. If it can help you to move forward.

Firstly thank you very much @muhammad.hanif for looking at this problem. Your suggestion is to use find image matches to find all the occurrences of the tick box and then use a for each loop on the results. I did consider this approach but this means that you miss any row that doesn’t have a ticke…

Unrelated to the search region problem when you do a ‘find image matches’ the resulting array of matches are not always in the same order as they appear in the document. What you could do in that case is store the data that you are interested in along with the Y coordinate of the image that you are …

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Charlie, but are you using exactly this same pdf documents, I think that I might have something developed for it, I’ll upload the solution later on. regards,

Thanks @Beepsheep. I saw your design on the challenges section (and that was a great working solution, whereas mine is a non working, not solution) before I started mine but your solution text scraped the entire area using chrome and I wanted to get my solution to work using a search range for the t…

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