https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70731#M23336 i have to read some values from command prompt using BP 4.2.35 version , have tried various techniques but not able to do so. Not able to find a font for the cmd as well. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Prateek Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:50:00 GMT PrateekMehan 2017-04-04T18:50:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70731#M23336 i have to read some values from command prompt using BP 4.2.35 version , have tried various techniques but not able to do so. Not able to find a font for the cmd as well. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Prateek Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:50:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70731#M23336 PrateekMehan 2017-04-04T18:50:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70732#M23337 You could just use the start process command in the utility environment object, and either pipe the output of your command into a text file (include something like > text.txt in your command) - then open and read that file using file management or string utility actions., or you could try to create a new version of the start process action that returns an output. Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:53:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70732#M23337 Denis__Dennehy 2017-04-05T15:53:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70733#M23338 Hi Denis, I have done my work through piping the output of cmd to text, but was just wondering even after recognizing the font and color it becomes a pain to read values from cmd. Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:34:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70733#M23338 PrateekMehan 2017-04-05T16:34:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70734#M23339 You should not need to interface with the cmd prompt at all, just use the start process action in the utility environment object. If you were interfacing with something like the cmd prompt via the GUI I would recommend using clipgoard keystrokes (to select all and copy - then use the GetClipboard() function in a calculation stage) rather than font recognition. Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:31:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/TO-Read-Values-From-Command-Prompt-Screen/m-p/70734#M23339 Denis__Dennehy 2017-04-05T19:31:00Z