https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Cannot-read-text-with-OCR-surface-automation/m-p/86374#M37237 My first thought is that there is a typo in the path variable. I have found the built-in OCR to be not that consistent yet. I am using Nuance PDF to read my PDFs and it is doing a much better job. If you have access to Nuance, you might want to try that. You can open the PDF and write straight to a Word or Excel document. From there, your job is easier. Hope that helps.   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:56:00 GMT PeterBly 2019-01-24T01:56:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Cannot-read-text-with-OCR-surface-automation/m-p/86373#M37236 Hi,   I'm currently trying to read a PDF with surface automation. I've spyed the document window, defined the region where the text will and assigned a font for the text. When I use the "Read text with OCR" on the read stage, I get the following error : Internal : Failed to perform step 1 in Read Stage 'Reader1' on page 'Read PDF Content' - The system cannot find the file specified.   The version used is BP 5. Has anyone encoutered this issue before?   Thanks, Betty Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:56:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Cannot-read-text-with-OCR-surface-automation/m-p/86373#M37236 Elena_BeatriceG 2019-01-23T16:56:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Cannot-read-text-with-OCR-surface-automation/m-p/86374#M37237 My first thought is that there is a typo in the path variable. I have found the built-in OCR to be not that consistent yet. I am using Nuance PDF to read my PDFs and it is doing a much better job. If you have access to Nuance, you might want to try that. You can open the PDF and write straight to a Word or Excel document. From there, your job is easier. Hope that helps.   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:56:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Cannot-read-text-with-OCR-surface-automation/m-p/86374#M37237 PeterBly 2019-01-24T01:56:00Z