Trying to extract tabular data from desktop application screen in UI Path - windows

I am using UiPath and am currently trying to extract data from a screen that looks like this:
When I use the Screen Scraping tool, I am able to get the data:
But when I add Get Full Text activity into my sequence and select the same region, the output to the variable is always blank.
Am I missing something here?

In the screen scraping tool the scraping method you are using is native, Whereas you are using Get Full Text activity which is equivalent forfull-text screen scraping method to retrieve the same in UIPath studio.
So try to use Get Visible Text activity (Equivalent to native screen scraping method).
I hope you know there are 3 scraping methods as below
Full-Text (Equivalent to Get full text activity)
Native (Equivalent to Get visible text activity)
OCR (Equivalent to Get OCR text activity)
Please let us know if you have further queries

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Getting the Window Text using Win32 API does not always work as well.
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The reason getting the window text using Win32 API does not work well is because there may be multiple windows in that rectangle. You will have to find out what all windows the rectangle contains and send a message to get the text for each window. It is not impossible but difficult to do and even if you manage to do that, you will run into issues of text alignment, etc. OCR is your best option.
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https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html
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Starting from version 1.70, you can export the content of Windows
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You may not be able to target it at a specific rectangle on the screen, but maybe the same result could be achieved by first scraping everything followed by some post-processing.
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SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard
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Known Limitations
SysExporter can export data from most combo boxes, list boxes,
tree-view, and list-view controls, but not from all of them. There are
some applications that use these controls to display data, but the
data itself is not actually stored in the control, but in another
location in the computer's memory. In such cases, SysExporter won't be
able to export the data.
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