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
The one I did manage to find was MS Sharepoint Designer 2007 SP3. But I believe that this is an add-on because when I try running it, I am getting the message “There are no products affected by this package installed in your system”. I downloaded this add-on pack from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27815 after searching in Microsoft site.
My OS is 64-Bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. My UiPath version is 2019.6.0 Community edition.
So my questions are:
Where/how can I download MS SharePoint Designer 2007 now (in 2019)?
If someone has the downloaded file, will they be able to upload it somewhere for me to download?
Is there any other way to get Microsoft OCR in UiPath going forward?
I really appreciate the support that this forum has provided so far. You guys are really awesome!
Please revert if someone can help. Thanks in advance.
Hi @Dexpert,
Welcome to the Community!
I’m not sure why do you want to install this but in 2019.6 Community Edition you have by default Microsoft OCR Engine installed:
The reason I am trying to install SharePoint Designer 2007 is only to get Microsoft OCR. So if it is already available, then I may not need SharePoint Designer 2007.
And you are absolutely right. I could see Microsoft OCR under the OCR Engine options. But do I need to import/enable it or something like that?
Because when using the UiPath inbuilt Microsoft OCR, I ran into 2 problems:
1) When I try to use screen scrape, I do not get Microsoft OCR in the drop down:
2) When trying to incorporate it in the workflow, I am unable to store the extracted data:
Normally you should be able to choose Microsoft as well:
However if this is not visible you can check if all packages are the newest. Eventually after screen scraping you can go to the activity which is shown after scraping:
Thank you for the reply and the tips! I tried them out and found more details:
#2 in my previous post shows the message that makes the workflow invalid when I substitute the Tesseract OCR with the Microsoft OCR.
I found that there were a lot of packages missing. While installing them, the below 2 packages for Tesseract and Microsoft OCR could not be installed in my system as they failed.
Most other OCR related packages (especially those from UiPath has been installed).
The Microsoft OCR installation fails with the below error message:
“NU1202: Package Microsoft.Windows.Ocr 1.0.0 is not compatible with net461 (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1). Package Microsoft.Windows.Ocr 1.0.0 does not support any target frameworks.”
And yes, I am using .NETFramework Version v4.6.1.
Other than any further insights, my specific doubts are:
Is there another package that I can install to get Microsoft OCR? If so, which one?
Should I downgrade/upgrade my .NETFramework Version? If so, to which one?
Why is my workflow invalid (as shown in #2 of my previous post) when I substitute the Tesseract OCR with Microsoft OCR?
I am very grateful for all your inputs till now. Thanks in advance.
Those all OCR engines are installed by default only from official UiPath Packages. I think that the installation of your studio might be somehow broken. Maybe try to reinstall it based on this instruction: