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Robotic Process Automation Projects

You're reading from   Robotic Process Automation Projects Build real-world RPA solutions using UiPath and Automation Anywhere

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217357
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
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Ivan Loncar Ivan Loncar
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Arun Kumar Asokan Arun Kumar Asokan
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Nandan Mullakara Nandan Mullakara
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Robotic Process Automation 2. Help Desk Ticket Generation FREE CHAPTER 3. CRM Automation 4. Moderating Social Media Using AI 5. Purchase Order Processing with UiPath ReFramework 6. Completing an RPA Challenge 7. Sales Order Processing 8. ERP User Administration 9. Employee Emergency Notifications 10. Using AI and RPA for Invoice Processing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A and B for UiPath 1. Appendix: Looking Forward and Next Steps

Extracting user details from PDF

We will now extract all the text in the PDF file:

  1. We'll start by adding a Step action within the Try block and call it Read PDF to logically separate these steps. Within this Step action, extract the text in PDF to a Table variable so that we can loop through the content. To do that, first extract the PDF text to a temporary text file. Add the PDF Extract text action and set the PDF path to the desktop PDF file that we created. Set the Text type to Structured text and set Export data to text file to Temp.txt, as shown here: 

  1. Over the next few steps, we will read the data from the temporary text file (Temp.txt) and assign it to a Table variable. This is so that we can loop through the text data and manipulate it:
    • Let's add the CSV/TXT Open action. Choose a Session name (such as S1), set the File path to Temp.txt, and select Tab for Delimiter. 
    • Next, add the CSV/TXT Read action...
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