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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Checking the automation

Let's compare the structured data output from the bot with the unstructured data from the invoices. This way, we can test that our project works.

Open the CSV file from the processed files folder. Also, open the corresponding invoice. The bot will have named the CSV file so that the invoice's filename is at the end. Place them side by side to compare them, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can compare each of the invoice fields to the columns in the CSV file. Do this comparison for the rest of the files that were generated. If all goes well, all the fields should match perfectly. 

These CSV files can now be used as input for an automation process that needs to use the invoice data. IQ Bot Community Edition can process many standard document formats such as invoices, purchase orders, bank statements, credit memos, and utility bills. There are many more formats in the Enterprise version. 

So, if we were to repeat these steps for...