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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Encrypting and decrypting documents

Encrypted PDF files are widely used to protect sensitive data. Having the ability to automate encryption and decryption can be a key feature to aid automating manual tasks. In the following section, you will learn how to encrypt and decrypt PDF files using RPA. For this walk-through, we will be using the existing Chapter14_Games.pdf file from the GitHub repository.

Encrypting a PDF file

We will use our Chapter14_Games.pdf file and apply encryption to this document. Automation Anywhere allows you to apply one of the industry-standard encryption algorithms from RC4 40-bit, RC4 128-bit, or AES 128-bit. Like always, let's begin by adding our comments.

Let's start this walk-through by executing the following steps:

  1. Add a new Comment action just below line 9, "------- Encrypt PDF File", and click on Save.
  2. To encrypt our PDF file, add the PDF: Encrypt document action just below line 10 so that you can start to set...