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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)

Summary

This chapter has been about everything related to email. The walk-throughs have demonstrated how to connect to the different types of mail servers, as well as using Outlook. You learned how to read from any email folder using specified criteria, such as a certain sender or a particular value in the subject line. You further built your knowledge of learning how to send emails, including replying and forwarding emails. That's not all; we also included how to save and add attachments to our emails.

In the next chapter, we will move on to using automation with PDF files. PDF files are very popular and are commonly used. There are many uses – one being invoices. You will learn how to use a bot to read PDF files, including extracting text and images. You will also learn how to split and merge documents and decrypt and encrypt PDF files.