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The ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO appears as a business object to Blue Prism. It sends files to ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 and gets back the processing results. The VBO has two built-in actions, Initialize and Clean Up, plus two actions for working with ABBYY FlexiCapture: Process and Process and Save. It ships with a sample process named BPA Process - FlexiCapture 12 Processor.xml.

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Process action

This action processes an input file in ABBYY FlexiCapture 12. The resulting export files are available as a file collection containing their binary content.
Screenshot of the Inputs tab of the Process action in the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO in Blue Prism, showing its input parameters.
Screenshot of the Outputs tab of the Process action in the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO in Blue Prism, showing its output parameters.
You can have the output data items created automatically by clicking the icon to the left of the value in the Store In column.

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Process and Save action

This action processes an input file in ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 and saves the resulting export files to an output directory. Its parameters match the Process action, plus OutputDirectoryPath.
Screenshot of the Inputs tab of the Process and Save action in the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO in Blue Prism, showing its input parameters.
The output parameters are the same as for the Process action: DocumentDefinition, Fields, Files, and VerificationUrl.
Screenshot of the Outputs tab of the Process and Save action in the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO in Blue Prism, showing its output parameters.

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Install the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO

To make the VBO and its usage example available on the Blue Prism side, import the BPA Object - FlexiCapture 12 VBO.xml and BPA Process - FlexiCapture 12 Processor.xml files into Blue Prism.
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Start the import

Open Blue Prism and click File → Import.
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Select the files to import

Following the on-screen instructions, select the following files one by one:
  • BPA Object - FlexiCapture 12 VBO.xml
  • BPA Process - FlexiCapture 12 Processor.xml
The usage example also needs two additional objects, whose default location is C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\VBO:
  • BPA Object - Utility - File Management.xml, a business object for working with files stored on the local hard drive
  • BPA Object - Utility - Environment.xml, a business object for interacting with the environment, such as running third-party processes like a web browser
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Check the import

After the import completes, all the business objects and the usage example appear in Blue Prism on the Studio tab.
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Restart Blue Prism

Restart Blue Prism for the changes to take effect.

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Configure the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO

You can use the VBO to create a new Blue Prism process or integrate it into an existing process.
You can also use the sample process named BPA Process - FlexiCapture 12 Processor, in C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY FlexiCapture Connector for BluePrism\Single-Task Package\Samples\BluePrism Sample Process.
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Create or open a process

Create a new Blue Prism process, by right-clicking Processes on the Studio tab and clicking Create Process, or open an existing process.
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Add an Action element

In the workspace, create an element of type Action, and then double-click it to open the action properties.
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Select the business object and action

In the Action Properties window, specify a name for the new action in the Name field. In the Business Object drop-down list, select FlexiCapture 12 VBO. In the Action list, select the action you need.
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Specify the input parameters

On the Inputs tab, specify the input parameters.You can specify values for text parameters explicitly by enclosing them in double quotation marks. For other data types, create the corresponding data items and specify their names in the Value column.
Screenshot of the Inputs tab in the Blue Prism Action Properties window, showing example input parameter values for the FlexiCapture 12 VBO.
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Specify the output parameters

On the Outputs tab, specify the output parameters. You can have the data items created automatically by clicking the icon to the left of the value in the Store In column.
Screenshot of the Outputs tab in the Blue Prism Action Properties window, showing example output Data Items for the FlexiCapture 12 VBO.

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Configure a proxy server

If you use a proxy server to connect to ABBYY FlexiCapture, what you pass depends on the authentication the proxy requires. For the password, create a data item of type Password and set the required password as its value. Then use that data item to pass the password into the ProxyPassword input parameter. For ProxyServerUrl and ProxyUsername, you can specify the values explicitly by enclosing them in double quotation marks.

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Change the timeout for processed documents

By default, the VBO waits 300 seconds for a processed document from ABBYY FlexiCapture.
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Create a variable

Create a variable of type Timespan.
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Set the wait time

Specify the wait time as the value of the variable.
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Pass the variable to the VBO

Specify the name of the variable in the DocumentProcessingTimeout input parameter.

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Start the ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 VBO

To start the configured VBO, click Go on the Blue Prism toolbar. If all the settings are correct, Blue Prism receives processing results from ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 and stores them in the output data elements you created. The format of the results depends on the scenario. For more information, see Single-Task Package usage scenarios. If any configuration setting is invalid, such as an incorrect ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 address, an error message appears.