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UiPath Associate Certification Guide

By : Niyaz Ahmed, Lahiru Fernando, Rajaneesh Balakrishnan
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UiPath Associate Certification Guide

By: Niyaz Ahmed, Lahiru Fernando, Rajaneesh Balakrishnan

Overview of this book

UiPath is the most popular vendor in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) industry. If you're an RPA enthusiast or citizen developer who wants to succeed in the industry, achieving this certification can help you get accredited and ready for real-world challenges using UiPath. UiPath Associate Certification Guide offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the UiPath RPA Associate certification exam to help you pass on the first attempt and get certified. The book is written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment questions, quizzes with answers at the end of each chapter, exam tips, and mock exams with detailed answers and explanations. You'll start by getting to grips with the basic concepts of UiPath RPA, and then progress to an in-depth discussion of all the concepts required for Associate certification. Finally, you'll develop UiPath skills by gaining the required knowledge and implement these skills using sample business cases. By the end of this UiPath book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the exam, gained the knowledge you need to work on real-world case studies, and learned how to apply the various concepts to build enterprise-level use cases.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Importance of RPA
6
Part 2: UiPath Studio
15
Part 3: Use Case and Exam Preparation
20
Chapter 17: Mock Exam 1
21
Chapter 18: Mock Exam 2

Extracting text from a PDF using the Extract PDF Text and Extract PDF with OCR activities

Data extraction from PDF files can be done in columns of text or on individual elements. First, we will look at how we can extract all of the data from a page. Using the Read PDF Text and Read PDF with OCR activities enables a user to read large text files. A page of a PDF file might contain computer-generated text and also text in image format. Once the file is open in Adobe Reader, you can easily highlight the computer-generated text individually, whereas the text in image format gets highlighted as a section. Find a PDF file that contains such text and try to use it for our assignment. Let's try to build a simple workflow with the previously mentioned activities by going through the following steps:

  1. Open the UiPath Studio solution that you created in the previous section.
  2. Open the Main.xaml workflow file to start editing the workflow.
  3. Drag and drop the Read PDF Text activity...