OCR and RPA are technologies very often working closely together,. In this video I will walk you through the ways you can do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on documents in Power Automate Desktop (RPA) and in Power Automate too!

Some links mentioned in the video:
1. Form Recognizer docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/azur...
2. Form Recognizer Rest API: https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/azur...
3. Form OCR Testing Tool (FOTT): https://fottpreview.azurewebsites.net/
4. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/azur...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:25 OCR in Power Automate Desktop
4:38 Using Tesseract
7:46 Using Azure Cognitive Services OCR
8:08 Setting up Cognitive Services in Azure
9:36 Configuring PAD to use Cognitive Services
10:44 Understanding Cognitive Services OCR results
13:16 Processing Cognitive Services OCR results
17:30 Using Azure Form Recognizer
18:32 Testing Form Recognizer with FOTT
22:56 Setting up Azure Blob Storage
25:22 Using Azure Storage Explorer desktop app
26:41 Configuring PAD to use Form Recognizer
36:44 Processing Form Recognizer results
39:30 Using AI Builder with Power Automate
43:57 Differences between AI Builder and Form Recognizer
44:45 Wrap up