Learning Robotic Process Automation

When to use OCR

There are some scenarios where normal activities such as Get Text and Click Text activities fail to extract the text or perform an action. This is when OCR comes in, giving us the flexibility to perform actions when existing activities fail to do their job.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It is a text recognition technique that transforms printed documents that are scanned into electronic formats.

OCR is used mainly for images, scanned documents, PDFs, and so on, to extract information or perform actions. Extracting information or data from images, scanned documents, or PDFs is a very tedious job. Normal activities are not recommended for extracting these types of inputs. OCR uses a different method and approach ...