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the text to find have "-" special character in it and what to expect on screen to appear also have this "-" and "|". It mean text to find and text on screen is identical. How to solve this problem because, I cant change the text on screen.

Both text to find and text on screen is dynamic and identical

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momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @muslimboutique

You need to expect that OCR might give you unreliable results in some cases.
What I do in flows where OCR is needed to grab text that is not spyable:

1. Test different OCR engines, in my case tesseract works best for my language
2. Test with different image scaling in ocr action, i usually use value of 10 with tesseract.
3. Expect that you will get cases where it fails and build logic to handle those cases

And at the end - what are you trying to automate?
Do you really need to use OCR instead of UI or web automation actions that allow you to work with text directly via code/ui/web elements?

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muslimboutique 3 on at

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I try this to click the ui element of webpage and it works. tr[Class="Polaris-IndexTable TableRow_1a850"] div[Class="yE4B3"]>a> span

But now I want to make this dynamic. tr[Class="Polaris-IndexTable TableRow_1a850"] div[Class="yE4B3"]>a> span[%Currentprouductname%]

Example %Currentprouductname% is equal to mouse over text in image which i send

And this is not working can your take a look into inspect element and tell me how to write this correctly

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momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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You need to access the text element with :Contains()
Note you will need to toggle the "text editor" switch to be able to amend this.

Example:
span:contains("Documentation")

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