OCR scan email attached image (Receipt)

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Hi,

I am new to RPA and UIPath and have completed the foundation academy training (just). As a test project, I would like to be able to email myself receipts and have UIPath, save those receipts into a folder on my computer (which I have managed to complete).

The next part would be to OCR scan the receipt and save the output as a text file with the same name as of the image file. This is what I am struggling with.

How do I OCR scan an email attachment, as part of the “If, Then” statement…

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Follow these steps once you are done with saving all the attachments (receipts).

  1. Loop thru the folder containing receipts (DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(“directory_path”) - list of files)
  2. Read the file name into a variable (ignoring the extension of file)
  3. Open the receipt (use open process activity)
  4. Get OCR Text into a string variable
  5. Write Text file activity to save the ocr text with the name extracted

Regards,
Karthik Byggari

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Thanks for the quick reply. Is there no way of doing this in its current mail attachment save loop?

The reason I ask, is that It would be inefficient to have it OCR scan the whole folder structure each time. If you can nest IF/Then loops, then I guess we could limit only to the folder the receipts have been added to.

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I thought the folder contains the receipts from that session only.

After Save Attachments Activity, add the following steps -

Open the same attachment (using open process activity)
Get OCR Text (Get OCR Text Activity)
Save the text to file with the attachment name (Write Text File Activity)

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I am unable to find “Open Process” activity

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Actually I mean Start Process -

Regards,
Karthik Byggari