Support Windows OCR engine in the OCR actions

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Business value

Provide users an alternate OCR engine to choose in OCR related actions to improve results of finding and extracting texts in different cases. Windows OCR engine also has direct UX benefits, such as supporting more languages and robustness in finding text on screen when compared to Tesseract OCR engine.

Feature details

Apart from Tesseract OCR engine, we want to support the Windows OCR engine as a way to work with the following OCR related actions:

  • If text on screen (OCR)
  • Wait for text on screen (OCR)
  • Move mouse to text on screen (OCR)
  • Extract text with OCR

See also

OCR (docs)