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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)

Extracting text and images

In this section, we will look at how to extract any text from a PDF file and save it to a text file. The walk-through will also show how a PDF can be saved as an image file.

Extracting text from a PDF file

When working with PDF files, we often have to read the text contained within them in order to process the text. A good example would be extracting the text from an invoice in PDF format. This text includes product information, including a description, the quantity, and the costs. As part of a business role, you may then validate the information before posting it to a purchase ledger. In the following walk-through, you will extract the text from the Chapter14_Letter.pdf sample PDF file. You may remember this file; it's one of the sample loan letters used in Chapter 12, Automation Using Word. You will begin by adding the comments as usual.

Let's start this walk-through by executing the following steps:

  1. Log in to Control Room.
  2. ...