Getting error Region.text: text recognition is currently switched off

put it before you touch any SikuliX feature in your code

for example:

public static void main(String[] args) throws FindFailed, InterruptedException {
  Settings.OcrTextRead=true;
  Screen screen = new Screen();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  Region r = screen.find("C:\\Users\\KHANDELA1\\Pictures\\AssetName_excel.PNG").below(20);
  screen.hover(r);
  String read = r.text();
  System.out.println("read"+read);

Be aware: the text feature has many problems and might not deliver what you expect.

Better use a library, that allows, to read XLS files directly (https://www.mkyong.com/java/apache-poi-reading-and-writing-excel-file-in-java/)

Thanks for response.

I put the code as you have given above but apologize for my limited java knowledge the line Settings.OcrTextRead=true; gives error and is giving error as 'Settings.OcrTextRead cannot be resolved to a type' and suggesting solutions like
1) create a class Settings
2) create an interface Settings.

Please help as what to do.

I am trying to use OCR as opposed to Apache POI as I have to read data from both an XLS file and a PDF

But why are you then working with Java in the first place? any reason?

Try out things in the SikuliX IDE and if you think, you can use the features, you might try to implement it in Java.

BTW: with SikuliX IDE xlrd is bundled (access XLS).

Generally I do not understand why people go the stony visual way with these problems. There are many free tools out there, to convert XLS and PDF to forms, that can be better read programmatically.

your class Settings problem:

look for the Settings class in the sikulixapi and import it (basic Java knowledge - sorry).