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Screen Scraping In Uipath
Purpose
Steps
- Click on the "Screen Scraping" icon on the top bar of the UIPath studio.
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- A window will appear to select the UI element.
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- The element is selected and the text is displayed in the "Scrape Result Preview" window.
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- Click on "Finish" to complete the process.
- Screen scraping is added in the designer pane.
- Set the output to a variable in the properties window.
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- Finally, display the value in the message box.
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- Save and run the bot.
Output
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Scraping methods
- Full text
- Extracts hidden text.
- Cannot extract data from screen coordinates.
- Fastest and most accurate.
- Works in the background.
- Works only with the desktop application.
- Native
- Extracts the text from the screen coordinates.
- No background execution.
- OCR - This method is useful for extracting those texts which could not be extracted by above 2 methods.