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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)

Project overview 

In this project, we will create a bot that will use RPA and AI to process invoices.

First, we will create an IQ Bot learning instance so that we can classify invoices and extract invoice details from PDFs and place them in a CSV file. The IQ Bot will learn our invoice format using AI and process them.

Then, we will use an A2019 Task Bot to feed the invoices that we'd like to process. We will loop through each file in the Invoice inputs folder and upload them to the IQ Bot Learning instance we'll create. 

Once the Upload bot has run successfully, we will be able to download the CSV files from the IQ Bot. We will use another Task Bot to download the CSV files and verify the data contained within them. If there are any shortcomings, we can retrain the IQ Bot. 

The overall workflow is as follows:

What we are doing here is intelligent document processing using AI. This is an important area where RPA is making a difference in enterprises...