UiPath Screen OCR: Now in Public Preview!

[vijayakumarkj]

Hi Cosin,

In the first usage with Get OCR Text ‘client’ and UiPath Screen OCR. It is working for me when I get the output from UiPath Screen OCR activity…

Though, I understand it is explained above the other way around, what is the purpose of the Text property in OCR under Output category ?

Thanks
VJ

[ASHISH_Agarwal]

UiPath Screen OCR takes image as an input. Image can be a poster,Scanned invoice or pdf to jpeg and the results/output were far better than teserract and microsoft OCR. Tried combination of 16 posters,invoices and PDFs and writing this review.

Good job team UiPath

[TonyJimenez]

This is pretty awesome! I haven’t found any real issues. Mainly using it to read pdfs

[Vijay_RPA]

@Cosin

UiPath.ScreenOCR.Activities

Can i use this for Digitize document (Intelligent OCR activities ) ? If that is possible i used getting error

[bdrever (Brandon)]

I’ve tried to use the UiPath Screen OCR to look at an image to see if it can get better results than the Microsoft OCR engine.

What I’m doing is putting an image into an image file using the Load Image activity. I then pass that image file into the OCR engine and have a String variable in the Text location of the activity.

My results for the Microsoft OCR Engine is some of the text from the image (sometimes correct, sometime incorrect).
My results for the UiPath Screen OCR Engine is the error “Error performing OCR: An error occurred while sending the request. ScreenOCRErrorRunningEngine”

I’m unsure if there is an error in how I set this up or not. I’ve tried it in the Computer Vision screen recording and was able to get some results, but not many.

Any help would be appreciated…

[luchovelez (Luis Velez)]

i am facing problem in the last days with this
ScreenOCRErrorRunningEngine

Uipath screen OCR Error endpoint beta is wrong?

i tried use read pdf with Uipath screen ocr engine yesterday but i have this problem Message: Error performing OCR: Error al enviar la solicitud. ScreenOCRErrorRunningEngine looks like a error of endpoint or something, another engines like abbyy cloud works fine, i used to use this engine before without problem Log error: 19.12.0-beta.61+Branch.release-v2019.12.0.Sha.c5ef64a84dd6be2c140a75da8fd036824faab942 Source: Read PDF With OCR Message: Error performing OCR: Error al enviar la solicitu…

[Jom4ick]

Perfect. It doesnt work

[VikasSteria (Vikas Kaushik)]

Hi

I’ve been using the UiPath Screen OCR since the day it was released for public preview and I must say that it is the best OCR I’ve ever used. UiPath OCR solved
a problem which I was having for almost over 2 years. However, since last 3~4 days it has stopped functioning with the below error message. Can someone please have a look and provide a resolution, would I be able to use it again, it was working brilliantly?

Regards

Vikas Kaushik

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Hi @Jom4ick @luchovelez @VikasSteria

We updated the first post. Please check it out:

UiPath Screen OCR: Now in Public Preview!

UiPath Screen OCR: Now in Public Preview! UPDATE The UiPath Screen OCR now requires the API key authentication. To make it simple, the API key you need is the same one as for the Computer Vision and you can get it from this page: [image] For more information, please see our documentation here: UiPath Screen OCR is our own in-house, machine-learning based OCR targeted for screens and digital text. It can be used as an alternative to the other OCR engines, with any of the available Screen…

To get it to work, you now have to provide the CV API key which you can get from your Cloud Platform licensing tab.

[Avinash_Sewpersadh]

Hi, just wanted to find out if anyone has this error, or how do i fix it…when I’m setting the cv screen scope…and am selecting the region, i always get a response “Response from server is not valid”…Getting the same error with all engines…Am i doing something incorrect…I’ve tried different engines as well

Thanks!!

[Lahiru.Fernando]

Hi @Avinash_Sewpersadh

Just check whether the provided API key is correct?

[Avinash_Sewpersadh]

It is…triple checked that…could it be something like a firewall rule or something?..is there a way to view the server responses

[Lahiru.Fernando]

I got this error once when I used it some time back, I’m just trying to recall how I resolved it…

[Avinash_Sewpersadh]

*Holding my breath …Hope u remember…This thing is killing me…
im sure the request and response messages exist somewhere…being able to view them should be able to help with troubleshooting?..

…or if u have a better solution…

Thanks man

[Avinash_Sewpersadh]

Find CV Text: Response from server is not valid (good internet connection & no proxy)

Update - I am running Studio 2018.4.3. I have uninstalled several packages (usually in C:\Users<username>.nuget\packages) and reinstall the most recent packages: uipath.computervision.activities uipath.uiautomation.activities uipath.vision Then getting a conflict conflict with 1: UiPath – I updated that to version 19.4 I no longer get the “Response from server is not valid” error. But I do get a new error message now: System.ArgumentException: You are calling the Computer Vision serve…

Do u think theres an issue on my platform? Im on beta 108

[Lahiru.Fernando]

Hi… just to check… are you using the latest version of the activities?

[sushildarveshi (Sushil)]

@Cosin - getting below error with UiPath Screen OCR
My API Key - NdewfxHIBmk4wRi0gCGkWV+At9H9piBhZQhg/mIRvLniOpRecSRlIEOEVrYhh116

[Vaelaar (Mark)]

" To get it to work, you now have to provide the CV API key which you can get from your Cloud Platform licensing tab."

What if we have on-premise installations of Orchestrator and CV and would still like to utilize UiPath’s screen OCR? We don’t have a cloud platform for our enterprise because we’re on-prem. Do we need to keep juggling community edition CV keys from cloud.uipath.com? Do they expire? Any additional info on this since almost two years ago? Thanks in advance.

[Bogdan_Sultana]

Hi @Vaelaar, UiPath Screen OCR is now included in the Linux on-premise installation, so updating your server to the latest version should solve your issue. Alternatively, you can set the UseLocalServer property to True which enables the UiPath Scren OCR to run on your local machine (slower and with a slightly worse quality output, but it all depends on how heavy your needs are).

[Vaelaar (Mark)]

Hi, @Bogdan_Sultana! Thanks for the reply – are you referencing the latest version of… Orchestrator? Or CV? Just wondering which on-prem, Linux installation you are referencing and if it’s the same for any non-Linux installations.

Thanks again.