"error executing OcrAction" while using OCR in Workfusion RPA Express.

Question

I am getting the below error "error executing OcrAction", while reading text from a pdf using OCR in Workfusion RPA Express.

Error executing OcrAction com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.PlaybackException: Error executing TemplateAction[templateName=OcrAction.ftl,id=11,name=Optional[OcrAction],parent=-3,nextSibling=12,arguments=ActionArguments[varName=[address],imageName=[C:\Users\pandas\workfusion-workspace\rpae_project\Untitled-20\1531908870651-anchor-1531908870677.apng],fullImageName=[1531908870651.png],xsi:type=[recorder:OcrAction, recorder:OcrAction],pollingInterval=[300],active=[true],type=[CONTROL],offsetX=[9],offsetY=[46],delay=[0],width=[165],actionDetails=[(to 'address' rectangle 165 x 20)],height=[20],awaitTimeout=[5000]]] at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.flow.StandardControlFlow.execute(StandardControlFlow.java:54) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.action.template.TemplateAction.execute(TemplateAction.java:30) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.action.template.TemplateAction.execute(TemplateAction.java:17) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.player.ActionPlayer.next(ActionPlayer.java:53) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.player.PlaybackLogic.playNextAction(PlaybackLogic.java:153) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.player.PlaybackLogic.run(PlaybackLogic.java:113) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Image does not found : 1531908870651-anchor-1531908870677.apng Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds Build info: version: '9.0.0.1', revision: 'e3a0fd7071', time: '2018-05-11T11:35:20.018Z' System info: host: 'CIBL273113', ip: '10.5.58.158', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_121' Driver info: com.freedomoss.crowdcontrol.webharvest.selenium.wrapper.RemoteDriverWrapper Capabilities [{imageSimilarityThreshold=0.8, extra.executor.id={Name=RPA Recorder}, CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS=false, browserName=universal, javascriptEnabled=true, extra.capabilities.context={"browserType":"universal","startInPrivate":false,"blockImages":false,"maximizeOnStartup":false,"customCapabilities":{"platform":"WINDOWS","javascriptEnabled":true,"SEARCH_ALL_WINDOWS":true,"CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS":false,"imageSimilarityThreshold":"0.8"},"executorId":{"Name":"RPA Recorder"}}, platformName=WINDOWS, SEARCH_ALL_WINDOWS=true, platform=WINDOWS}] Session ID: 7363967d-bea5-4e20-b0f6-73fbf34e0cc6 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:216) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:168) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.JsonHttpResponseCodec.reconstructValue(JsonHttpResponseCodec.java:41) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:82) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:45) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:164) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:656) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.executeScript(RemoteWebDriver.java:592) at com.workfusion.rpa.helpers.RPA.executeScript(RPA.java:864) at com.workfusion.rpa.helpers.RPA.executeGroovyScript(RPA.java:930) at com.workfusion.rpa.helpers.ImageElement.findImageRectangle(ImageElement.java:183) at com.workfusion.rpa.helpers.ImageElement.getRect(ImageElement.java:86) at com.workfusion.rpa.helpers.UiElement.getRect(UiElement.java:1025) at org.openqa.selenium.WebElement$getRect.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:117) at Script12.run(Script12.groovy:5) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.shell.GroovyShellWrapper.executeScript(GroovyShellWrapper.java:90) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.player.PlaybackContext.executeScript(PlaybackContext.java:65) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.action.template.TemplateAction.executeBehavior(TemplateAction.java:35) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.flow.StandardControlFlow.execute(StandardControlFlow.java:46) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.action.template.TemplateAction.execute(TemplateAction.java:30) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.action.template.TemplateAction.execute(TemplateAction.java:17) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.playback.player.ActionPlayer.next(ActionPlayer.java:53) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.player.PlaybackLogic.playNextAction(PlaybackLogic.java:153) at com.workfusion.studio.rpa.recorder.player.PlaybackLogic.run(PlaybackLogic.java:113) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.util.NoSuchElementException: Image does not found : 1531908870651-anchor-1531908870677.apng at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedConstructor.invoke(CachedConstructor.java:83) at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedConstructor.doConstructorInvoke(CachedConstructor.java:77) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.ConstructorSite$ConstructorSiteNoUnwrap.callConstructor(ConstructorSite.java:84) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallConstructor(CallSiteArray.java:60) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:235) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:247) at Script1$1.call(Script1.groovy:12) at Script1$1.call(Script1.groovy) at com.workfusion.common.utils.SynchUtils.withFocusLock(SynchUtils.java:47) at com.workfusion.common.utils.SynchUtils$withFocusLock.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:133) at Script1.run(Script1.groovy:5) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:585) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:623) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.evaluate(GroovyShell.java:594) at com.workfusion.autoit.driver.AutoItDriver.executeGroovyScript(AutoItDriver.java:243) at com.workfusion.autoit.driver.AutoItDriver.executeScript(AutoItDriver.java:211) at com.workfusion.autoit.driver.AutoItDriver.executeScript(AutoItDriver.java:187) at com.workfusion.universal.driver.UniversalDriver.executeScript(UniversalDriver.java:149) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.ExecuteScript.call(ExecuteScript.java:54) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.WebDriverHandler.handle(WebDriverHandler.java:41) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.rest.ResultConfig.handle(ResultConfig.java:133) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.JsonHttpCommandHandler.handleRequest(JsonHttpCommandHandler.java:203) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.InMemorySession.execute(InMemorySession.java:98) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.WebDriverServlet.lambda$handle$0(WebDriverServlet.java:231) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

Your root cause is in your exception:

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Image does not found : 1531908870651-anchor-1531908870677.apng

It means in OCR action your are using an anchor image and it was not found in the document you are trying to OCR