Can robot framework detect text from a scanned file?

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Since we need to process a lot of extraction from pdf file/images, i found that seems like the robot can’t detect the word from a scanned pdf. I wonder if there’s a method to let the robot detect the text from scanned file(pdf)?

Here is the example of scanned file: https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.rednfKM5zP-d-q5zgF7TcQHaFu?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

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See IDP - Robocorp Portal for ideas.

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And also this developer guides article about reading PDFs.

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When i try running the robot task ‘Extract Structured Data With AI’ from here’GitHub - robocorp/example-parse-pdf-invoice: Extract information from PDF invoices’, it shows

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What should i do?

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I never learn api related knowledge before, so i dont know how to fix this issue

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You need to set up vault to your local settings. Or link to control room and set up secrets there.

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I read the article but I can’t really understand it. What thing should i do to let the robot works? Like changing some data in the settings.json?

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It may be easier to use Control Room for storing secrets. Then there is no need to make any changes in settings.json. To get it working you must:

  1. have an Account in Control Room https://cloud.robocorp.com/
  2. Have Robocorp extensions installed to VSCode
  3. Link VSCode to Control Room and Connect to Control Room Vault (see Robocorp Visual Studio Code Overview | Robocorp documentation)
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