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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
Book Image

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)

Splitting and merging documents

In this section, you will learn how to manipulate PDF files by means of splitting an existing file into multiple files and merging multiple files into a single PDF document. The walk-through will use the Chapter14_Games.pdf file, which is part of the GitHub repository.

Splitting a PDF file

The Chapter14_Games.pdf sample file that we will use is an eight-page document summarizing the contents of a book about retro arcade games. For this walk-through, the bot is tasked with splitting this document into eight separate PDF files, each file consisting of one page. Like always, let's begin by adding our comments:

  1. Add a new Comment action just below line 5, "------- Split File", and click on Save.
  2. To split the PDF file, add the PDF: Split document action just below line 6 so that you can start to set the properties.
  3. Firstly, we need to specify the PDF file that will be used. To do this, set the following property for the...