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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)

Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files

To recall what we learned in the last chapter, we worked with automating emails. This included reading and looping through specified mailbox folders, as well as applying filters, such as filtering by subject-line text or the sender's email address. The walk-through also demonstrated how to save attachments from received emails. We also walked through how to use RPA to send emails, as well as replying to and forwarding them.

Progressing onward, in this chapter, we will be exploring PDF files. PDF files are used extensively within businesses. They can take many forms, such as business flow documents, design plans, or invoices. This chapter will teach you how to extract text from a PDF file, as well as saving a document as an image. Other actions that you will learn include manipulating PDF files by merging and splitting PDF documents. Finally, you will also get to encrypt a PDF file, as well as decrypt it. This is an essential part of adding...