Microsoft OCR Engine not working

[IvoBC (Ivo)]

Hi all,

I’ve already read numerous posts on the Microsoft OCR Engine not working and what to do about it:

Uipath - Install MS Office OCR

Hello, I’m using the 2016.2 version of UiPath and I didn’t had MS Office OCR installed on my VM. After reading this post carefully, I installed Sharepoint Designer 2010 (as I’m using Office 2010 instead) and I as far as I could understand on my Control Panel, I have Sharepoint enabled. So, having said this, I installed Sharepoint Designer, I restarted UiPath and even the machine. I’ve no idea why I can’t see Microsoft OCR available. I need this to be able to pursue with the training on the UiP…

Unable to Install Microsoft OCR in 2019

Hi All, I can see from multiple posts that UiPath needs Sharepoint Designer 2007 for installing Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) that is required to get Microsoft OCR. One such post is - Uipath - Install MS Office OCR - #7 by Kadhambam_Pookkal Below is my issue: MS Sharepoint Designer 2007 is not available for download anywhere. The link that has been provided in the other posts - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=21581 says that it is no longer a…

Why Microsoft OCR is not working in my UIPath Studio

Hi , I recently downloaded the Latest version of UIPath and installed in my machine but I am not able to use Microsoft OCR. I have windows 7 sp1 and office 2007.

However, these don’t provide me an answer to my problem.

Microsoft OCR is installed on Studio and is available in the activities. But when I run the robot I get the following error:

The robot is running in a controlled test-environment and has therefore limited access to the outside world (hence: internet connection is limited).

Can it be that the OCR engine needs connection to some kind of external server? To my understanding Microsoft OCR is installed with the Studio and can therefore run locally…

I’ve removed Studio and installed it again, but still getting the same error.

Strange thing is that I’ve also run the same scrip in a more ‘open environment’ and there it is working fine.

I’ve read that missing software (MODI) could be the issue, but also that in newer Studio versions it’s not needed anymore… Besides that the MODI software is not available anymore (Microsoft has removed it).

Something is not working but I can’t get my head around the problem… all help is welcome, thanks!

[bcorrea (Bruno Correa)]

Im am not sure if it needs internet to work, only that is something provided by Microsoft and while there is the activity in UiPath, the support for it may be limited, see more info here:

Microsoft OCR

And try other options if you cant use it…

[IvoBC (Ivo)]

@bcorrea, thanks for your reply!
Unfortunately the UiPath docs don’t give any information on this…

Other options don’t work for me because they are not stable and accurate enough

[rajivm (Rajiv)]

@IvoBC Did you ever manage to find out what was causing this issue?