Legacy application question

I think the following are free OCR options for CV activities:

  1. UiPath Screen OCR:
    Activities - UiPath Screen OCR
  2. Tesseract OCR:
    Activities - Tesseract OCR
  3. Microsoft OCR:
    Activities - Microsoft OCR

Let us know which OCR models populate and if you continue to experience issues.

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For some reason, I do not see CV clicks or CV type into working. I used Tesseract OCR. No errors. Just no actions done. Thanks

At least you have access to Tesseract OCR and the error message is gone. DM me and we can setup a meeting to dig into it.

I see, have you tried UiPath screen OCR?

Also as suggested by Will Oprisko, take screenshot of the application you are trying to automate. Then open the screenshot to use the cv activities(e.g cv click, cv type Into etc)

Check the below video it follows the same method:
UiPath AI Computer Vision Demo - Using Computer Vision Local Server Package - YouTube

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Everyone is suggesting CV activities. They’re obsolete. You should be working in modern, and the modern activities have CV built in. You don’t use the CV-specific activities. You just use the normal activities (ie click, type into, etc) and they have CV built in.

When using modern activities for a legacy application, when a descriptor cannot be identified, which is the case with legacy apps, does the CV kick in automatically and provide an identifier for the element? I do not see that happening.

The click or type into is identifying the whole block and not an individual element.

Thank you,

CV not working. I am getting SSL error. Thank you

I do not have access to Services in Orchestrator. Not sure if CV is allowed. Thank you,

You don’t need access to Orchestrator.
Just have to drag and drop the required CV activities and indicate elements with using those activities.
In property panel no need to add any API keys or anything that’s related to Orchestrator.

You have to either turn on CV in the project settings for application selectors, or turn it on in the selector window as you’re indicating the target.

The CV activities are outdated. You should be using modern, and CV is built into the selectors.