Graphical element search technique selection, fuzzy logic selection of anchors and targets, and/or hierarchical graphical element identification for robotic process automation

A computer-implemented method for identifying a target user interface (UI) element associated with an activity of a robotic process automation (RPA) workflow, comprising:

• executing a selector search for the target UI element at runtime to identify the target UI element, by an RPA robot implementing the RPA workflow;
• when the target UI element is not found, executing a fuzzy selector search, a target and anchor search, a fuzzy target and anchor search, image matching, text matching, computer vision (CV) matching, or a combination thereof, to identify the target UI element, by the RPA robot;
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• performing an interaction with the identified target UI element, by the RPA robot, based on the activity of the RPA workflow.

A computer-implemented method for identifying a target user interface (UI) element associated with an activity of a robotic process automation (RPA) workflow, comprising:

• executing a selector search and at least one of a fuzzy selector search, a target and anchor search, a fuzzy target and anchor search, image matching, text matching, and computer vision (CV) matching for the target UI element at runtime, by an RPA robot configured to implement the RPA workflow;
• selecting a best result from the selector search and the at least one of the fuzzy selector search, the target and anchor search, the fuzzy target and anchor search, the image matching, the text matching, and the CV matching based on validation scores, by the RPA robot, to identify the target UI element;
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• performing an interaction with the identified target UI element, by the RPA robot, based on the activity of the RPA workflow.