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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 PDF text using Screen Scraping

Screen Scraping in UiPath offers the capability to extract text from a specific application or UI element. The same Screen Scraping wizard that we used in Chapter 10, Exploring User Interfaces and User/Robot Interactions, can extract data from PDF files. Now that you have a general understanding of Screen Scraping, let's try to build a new workflow to extract text from the same PDF file using Screen Scraping:

  1. Open the PDF document that we need to screen scrape.
  2. Open the same UiPath solution you were working on in the previous section of the chapter.
  3. Create a new Sequence workflow file.
  4. Click on the Design tab in the top-level ribbon.
  5. Locate the Screen Scraping option and click it to open Screen Scraping Wizard. Clicking on it will automatically activate the UI element detection, and you will be able to highlight elements as you move the mouse pointer.
  6. Highlight the area of the entire page and left-click using...