According to the UiPath documentation and web search results, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a method that reads text from images, recognizing each character and its position. OCR is used to digitize documents and make them searchable and editable. OCR can be performed by different engines, such as Tesseract, Microsoft OCR, Microsoft Azure OCR, OmniPaqe, and Abbyy. OCR is a basic step in the Document Understanding Framework, which is a set of activities and services that enable the automation of document processing workflows.
IntelligentOCR is a UiPath Studio activity package that contains all the activities needed to enable information extraction from documents. Information extraction is the process of identifying and extracting relevant data from documents, such as fields, tables, entities, and labels. IntelligentOCR uses different components, such as classifiers, extractors, validators, and trainers, to perform information extraction. IntelligentOCR also supports different formats, such as PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and BMP. IntelligentOCR is an advanced step in the Document Understanding Framework, which builds on the OCR output and provides more functionality and flexibility.
[References:, About the IntelligentOCR Activities Package, OCR Activities, OCR Feature Comparison: Uipath Community vs Uipath Licensed OCR, Document Understanding - Introduction, , ]
