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Document Understanding user guide

Last updated Apr 6, 2026

Digitization related activities

Framework components

Digitize Document

Digitizes a document, extracting its Document Object Model (DOM) and text and storing them in their corresponding variable types. More details here.

OCR engines

UiPath Extended Languages OCR

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image by using the OCR engine. Visit UiPath Extended Languages OCR for more information.

OCR for Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Note:

The UiPath Chinese, Japanese, Korean OCR will be deprecated starting with January 2025. We recommend using the UiPath Extended Languages OCR instead. Check the deprecation timeline for more information about upcoming deprecations and removals.

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image by using the OCR engine. Visit OCR for Chinese, Japanese, Korean for more information.

UiPath Document OCR

Extracts a string and associated information about the textual content of document images. More details here.

OmniPage OCR

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image using OmniPage OCR Engine. More details here.

Google Cloud Vision OCR

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image using the Google Cloud OCR engine. More details here.

Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image by using the Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine. More details here.

Microsoft OCR

Extracts a string and its information from the provided image. Microsoft OCR activity uses the Windows 10 built-in OCR, if available, otherwise, it resumes to the default MODI OCR Engine. More details here.

Tesseract OCR

Extracts a string and its information from an indicated UI element or image using Tesseract OCR Engine. More details here.

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