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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By : Chetan Giridhar
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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By: Chetan Giridhar

Overview of this book

<p>This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.</p> <p>With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.</p> <p>A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You’ll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.</p> <p>This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Automate it!
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


In the previous few chapters, we looked at working with CSV files and then extended our scope to learn about working with Excel worksheets. While CSV files are in a simple text format, Excel files are available in binary format.

In this chapter, we will discuss two more binary file formats: .pdf and .docx. You'll build knowledge on generating and reading PDF files, copying them and even manipulating them to build your own header and footer formats. Do you know you could merge many PDF files with a simple Python recipe?

This chapter also takes you on a journey of working with Word documents. It helps you build knowledge on reading and writing data into Word files. Adding tables, images, charts, you name it and this chapter covers it. Sounds interesting? Then this chapter is definitely for you!

Specifically, we will focus on the following Python modules in this chapter: