Screen Scraping Enquiry

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The following are the instructions of an exercise regarding screen scrapping in the RPA Nanodegree courses;

Use Open Browser activity and enter URL `Google Images
1 * Use Type Into activity in Open Browser activity and search “text images” in the URL.
2 * Use Screen Scraping from Design ribbon to select an image containing text.
3 * Choose Tesseract OCR as a Screen Scraping method. Change Scale as per the image text.
4 * Use Write Text File activity to store content in a Notepad file.

I am done with the first 3 points and got stuck with the “4th” last point, as after I added the activity of the Write text file and put the path filename of the notepad which to be filled with the scrapped text; the error is appearing from the Text; Can anyone support me with this enquiry to be able to complete my workflow

I would be thankful for this support.

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Definitely! Can you please share the error screenshot?

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Can you please specify the error. Will be helpful if you could share image used for OCR, the code and the text file you are finally saving text to?

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@SantoshPothina
@Jamal_Malik

This error is appearing in the write text file upon filling the part of the destination notepad file.
I am stuck with the Text field ; it’s making an error upon trying to write the created variable of the scraped text !! That’s all in brief regarding the point

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@SantoshPothina
@Jamal_Malik

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@Mohamed_Hassan - scrapped text should be the string type…ans this should be the output from previous activity.

Please check your get text activity output variable and properties.

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Yes, I know that it should be the string type to be shown in this

I added the variable of “scappedtext” in string type but making the same error !!

there is something mismatching in properties i think so

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@Mohamed_Hassan - Please share the screenshot of the Get text and tessaract properties.

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@prasath17 I think the error is in the type but we I solve it from a side the other part makes another error :confused:

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@Mohamed_Hassan - ScrappedText should be given in the “Text” not Result…Please see the description of the text when you hover your mouse…

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Yeah, it worked and ran the work flow successfully

Thanks a lot, Guru