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Screen Scraping In Uipath

Purpose

Steps

1. Click on the "Screen Scraping" icon on the top bar of the UiPath studio

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2. A window will appear to select the UI element

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3. The element is selected and the text is displayed in the "Scrape Result Preview" window

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4. Click on "Finish" to complete the process
5. Screen scraping is added in the designer pane
6. Set the output to a variable in the properties window

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7. Finally, display the value in the message box

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8. Save and run the bot

Output

Scraping Methods

1. Full-text
   1. Extracts hidden text
   2. Cannot extract data from screen coordinates
   3. Fastest and most accurate
   4. Works in the background
   5. Works only with the desktop application
2. Native
   1. Extracts the text from the screen coordinates
   2. No background execution
3. OCR → This method is useful for extracting those texts that could not be extracted by the above 2 methods