How to extract text from a set of Images stored in folder

[PrithwishBhatta]

Hi,

I have a folder where there are N number of images(jpg) which has some text written on it.I want to loop through the folder and pick up each image and extract the text from the image and store it in some excel.Now the problem is i can individually open a image using Surface automation and spy using region mode,create the region and can use read text using the "Read text from OCR" command.
However when this needs to be dynamically for a set of images stored in a folder i am unable to do so as the spying and region can not be done.Please provide some pointers on how to achieve this,

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Prithwish Bhattacharjee
Architect
Cognizant
Asia/Kolkata
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[ewilson]

Hi @Prithwish Bhattacharjee,

Have you considered using a cloud service like Microsoft's Azure Computer Vision? There are assets available on the Digital Exchange that expose access to this service. You will need to sign up for an Azure account, but you should be able to leverage this at a free tier for testing. There are similar services available from AWS, Google, IBM, and others.

Cheers,​

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Eric Wilson
Director, Partner Integrations for Digital Exchange
Blue Prism
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