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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

When to use OCR

There are some scenarios where normal activities such as Get Text and Click Text activities fail to extract the text or perform an action. This is when OCR comes in, giving us the flexibility to perform actions when existing activities fail to do their job.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It is a text recognition technique that transforms printed documents that are scanned into electronic formats.

OCR is used mainly for images, scanned documents, PDFs, and so on, to extract information or perform actions. Extracting information or data from images, scanned documents, or PDFs is a very tedious job. Normal activities are not recommended for extracting these types of inputs. OCR uses a different method and approach to extract the information.

There are two OCRs available in UiPath Studio:

  1. Microsoft OCR
  2. Google OCR

Microsoft's OCR is known as MODI...