There are two OCRs available in our UiPath Studio:
- Microsoft OCR
- Google OCR
However, we are free to import other OCR engines into our project.
Both the Microsoft and Google OCR engines have their own advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of Google OCR include the following:
- Multiple language support can be added in Google OCR
- Suitable for extracting the text from a small area
- It has full support for color inversion
- It can filter only allowed characters
The advantages of Microsoft OCR include the following:
- Multiple languages are supported by default
- It is suitable for extracting text from a large area
OCR is not 100% accurate. It is useful for extracting text that other methods cannot successfully do. It works with all applications, including Citrix.
Microsoft and Google's OCRs are not the optimum for every situation. Sometimes, we have...