topic RE: Region Mode - Read text with OCR in Product Forum

Region Mode - Read text with OCR

RobinJensen — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:22:00 GMT

Hello,

I'm having some issues where I try to read a list region with OCR. The list are a bunch of dates seperated by dots (DD.MM.YYYY)

Reading out the dates are no problem, the issues is that Blue Prism fail to read it correctly where 2 end up being read as 7 and 3 being read as 8 and so on.

I have tried setting the font automatically with no luck. I also did try to create my own font, but this did not bring me any closer to success either, sadly.

So far I have had some progress with whitelistening 0-9 and the period sign (.) and setting the scale to different values where I get the correct reading with X scale, but for Y dates it doesn't work properly again.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

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Robin Jensen
IKT-RÃ¥dgiver / RPA Developer
TromsÃ¸ Kommune
Europe/Oslo
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RE: Region Mode - Read text with OCR

GopalBhaire — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:52:00 GMT

Have you tried using Recognize Text? by specifying font name and importing fonts of right size will probably solve the issue.

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Gopal Bhaire
Analyst
Accenture
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RE: Region Mode - Read text with OCR

RobinJensen — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:23:00 GMT

Hello Gopal,

Thank you very much for your suggestion!

As of now this looks to be the perfect solution for my problem - Why I do not know, as I'm not even specifying a font. I'll have to let it run for some time and make sure it works consistently, but for now this looks very promising.

Again, thank you so much. 🙂

EDIT:

After some more testing I have found that I need to specify the font for some fields that I try to read, but others does not require it. Either way - Using Recognise text did the job for me!

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Robin Jensen
IKT-RÃ¥dgiver / RPA Developer
TromsÃ¸ Kommune
Europe/Oslo
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