Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Software Resources - Page 58

This can be done by using OCR (Optical character recognition) tools like 'Tesseract'

In the automation ideal business processes, a single-sign-on account is set for the bot to access the web application in production environment, thus eliminating the requirement to read Captcha. Otherwise, it is advised to exclude the captcha protected applications from standard automation. Designing a bot to read captcha, defeats the purpose of setting up captcha protection in the first place! :)

Captchas are used unauthorised bot activities, so using process automation on captcha enabled same as unethical hacking. If you are doing real automation then authorised bot should get special access to avoid the overhead.

It depend on the content you are scanning. my assumption is if content is clear then it can give 100% but if content is blur or hand written then it can reduce to 50% depend on the clarity of the content

very accurate with the last release of uipath screen ocr is free and better than abbyy cloud or google cloud even faster

100% accurate in especially for PDF it gonna use full a lot

Most of the times OCR is fairly accurate. But when there are similar texts on the screen it behaves ambiguously. For instance if you have "mode-I" and "mode-II" on the same page it might confuse between the two.

The accuracy of OCR depends on the document quality. For unstructured documents embedded OCR tools (from Google, Microsoft) are fairly acceptable. For semistructured documents (invoices & receipts & bank statements) we are working with Abbyy FlexiCapture tools. For each document type it is possible to define a layout for data that must be extracted using Abbyy FlexiLayout. This layout is then used in Abbyy FC Document Definition to test the extraction. This will generate so called .fcdot that can be integrated in UIPath workflows using Abbyy Intelligent OCR package. In this way the extraction is very accurate and automation works excellent. Still, the confidence level should be defined in Abbyy FC. In the case of any uncertainties, UIPath raises Abbyy Verification station. It is possible to extract data not only from pdf files, but also from .tiff, .png and .jpg. Still, to use Abbyy Intelligent OCR package is mandatory to use Abbyy FC Engine. This is licensed separately by UIPath directly and not by Abbyy. One last recommendation: Use Abbyy FC Standalone instead of Abbyy FC Distributed. It is mandatory to use integration in UIPath activities for the .fcdot files.

The accuracy of OCR depends on the document quality. For unstructured documents embedded OCR tools (from Google, Microsoft) are fairly acceptable. For semistructured documents (invoices & receipts & bank statements) we are working with Abbyy FlexiCapture tools. For each document type it is possible to define a layout for data that must be extracted using Abbyy FlexiLayout. This layout is then used in Abbyy FC Document Definition to test the extraction. This will generate so called .fcdot that can be integrated in UIPath workflows using Abbyy Intelligent OCR package. In this way the extraction is very accurate and automation works excellent. Still, the confidence level should be defined in Abbyy FC. In the case of any uncertainties, UIPath raises Abbyy Verification station. It is possible to extract data not only from pdf files, but also from .tiff, .png and .jpg. Still, to use Abbyy Intelligent OCR package is mandatory to use Abbyy FC Engine. This is licensed separately by UIPath directly and not by Abbyy. One last recommendation: Use Abbyy FC Standalone instead of Abbyy FC Distributed. It is mandatory to use integration in UIPath activities for the .fcdot files.

In reality, we are not using enough automation. Majority of the processes even in large scale organisations are waiting for automation. The critical cause for this is that a vast portion of their processes are still un-standardized. This is resulting in over utilization of human resources. Even the small scale industries are not benefitting enough from automation because of limited access to automation technologies resulting in overhead expenses. In overall scenario, due to lack of automation, most of the jobholders are being employed for the work which is not challenging for their creativity and potential.