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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By : Chetan Giridhar
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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By: Chetan Giridhar

Overview of this book

<p>This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.</p> <p>With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.</p> <p>A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You’ll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.</p> <p>This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Automate it!
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating and copying PDF documents


Working with PDFs adds more value when you can create them from scratch programmatically. Let's see how we can create our own PDF files in this section.

Getting ready

We will continue to use the PyPDF2 module for this recipe and will deal with its PdfFileWriter and PdfFileMerger classes. We will also use another module, fpdf, to demonstrate adding content to PDF files. We will talk about this later in the recipe.

How to do it...

  1. We can create a PDF file in multiple ways; in this example, we copy the contents of an old file to generate a new PDF file. We start by taking an existing PDF--Exercise.pdf. The following screenshot shows the contents of this file. It contains two pages; the first page is a technical exercise and the second page gives possible hints for the solution of the exercise, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. We will create a new PDF file by reading Exercise.pdf and writing the contents of the first page of the exercise into the new file...