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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)

Document processing

By most estimates, more than 70% to 80% of data in enterprises are in documents mostly PDFs, scans, and forms. Digitizing this information opens up many use cases for automation.

With AI, document processing has been able to overcome many challenges, as noted in Chapter 10, Using AI and RPA for Invoice Processing. The IQ Bot project we completed in that chapter gave you a glimpse into the document processing capabilities that are being added to RPA. You can also add document processing to RPA using Cloud AI (for example, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon) or use dedicated OCR/ICR vendors such as Abbyy, Hyland, Kofax, or Hyperscience.