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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 groundwork

We will create the image folders for the bot to pick up and place the processed images. We will also create an Excel configuration file that the administrator can use to specify the parameters to be used by the bot. Let's get started:

  1. First, we need to create two folders in the UiPath project folder:
    • Input: This folder will hold social media images to be moderated. Place a few image files here that you would like to detect explicit content for.
    • Output: The bot will place the file with the image likelihood results in this folder. Create an Excel file called ImageDetails.xlsx with five columns called ImagePath, Adult, Violence, Racy, and Medical, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Next, let's prepare the configuration file. To store the configuration parameters, we'll create an Excel file called Config.xlsx. We will place it in the same UiPath project folder we placed the Input and Output folders, as shown in the...