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Learning Robotic Process Automation

You're reading from   Learning Robotic Process Automation Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470940
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alok Mani Tripathi Alok Mani Tripathi
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Preface 1. What is Robotic Process Automation? FREE CHAPTER 2. Record and Play 3. Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow 4. Data Manipulation 5. Taking Control of the Controls 6. Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions 7. Handling User Events and Assistant Bots 8. Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging 9. Managing and Maintaining the Code 10. Deploying and Maintaining the Bot 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Screen Scraping

Screen Scraping is a method of extracting data from documents, websites, and PDFs. It is a very powerful method for extracting text. We can extract text using the Screen Scraper wizard. The Screen Scraper wizard has three scraping methods:

  • Full Text
  • Native
  • OCR

We shall elaborate on each of these methods one by one. One should have a clear understanding of these methods in order to know when to use which method. There will be situations when we have to choose the best method for our needs:

  • Full text: The Full text activity is used to extract information from various types of documents and websites. It has a 100% accuracy rate. It is the fastest method among all three methods. It even works in the background. It is also capable of extracting hidden text. However, it is not suitable for Citrix environments.
  • Native: This is similar to the Full text method but has...
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