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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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)

Setting up the Google Cloud Vision API's key and credentials

As we mentioned in the Project overview section, we will use the Google Cloud Vision API to detect explicit content. This feature is also called SafeSearch. It estimates the likelihood that any given image includes adult content, violence, and so on.

The Google Cloud Vision API allows you to easily add machine learning-based vision detection to your applications. The vision detection features you can include are image labeling, face and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and tagging explicit content. We will be using the last feature, called SafeSearch, for moderation purposes here. Visit https://cloud.google.com/vision/ for more details.

Let's set up the Google Cloud Vision API services so that we can use its explicit content detection (SafeSearch) feature.