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Robotic Process Automation for Developers [Video]

By : Ramesh Nougain
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Robotic Process Automation for Developers [Video]

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By: Ramesh Nougain

Overview of this book

The future of work is here: digital workforces. RPA solves a major software integration problem by automating at the presentation layer. Robotic Process Automation is the automation of repetitive and rule-based human tasks working with software applications at the User Interface layer. This course aims to make you ready for new-age RPA Developer jobs in the Digital Workforce era. You will begin by learning RPA concepts and how they can benefit people at their work. Then, you will master UI automation and extract content using scraping methods. You will get to know the various recorders available in UiPath to record human actions. Finally, you will build a workflow automation and get the hang of automating Excel, PDF, e-mail and Citrix applications. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to apply the power of automation to your projects. The code files are placed on GitHub at this link https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Robotic-Process-Automation-RPA-for-Developers
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 6
Automating Excel, PDF, and Email Documents
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Section 2
PDF Automation
PDF files are commonly used document type in business processes such as Invoice Processing, Claims Processing, Customer Onboarding, Etc. Using UiPath PDF automation, PDF documents processing can be automated. - See how the UiPath PDF package provides activities to extract large text data from Native as well as Image PDFs - Look at how the UiPath uses OCR Engines to extract text content from image PDFs. Screen Scraping methods can also be used with PDFs - Understand that the specific PDF document elements can be extracted using Get Text with or without Anchor Base