Overview

This is the final course in a three-part series for IBM Robotic Process Automation, and follows the courses of Robotic Process Automation 23.0.x: Fundamentals of Task Automation (ZB506G) and Robotic Process Automation 23.0.x: Building Attended and Unattended Bots (WB5076 / ZB507). In this course, you learn how to work with Windows automation, surface automation, optical character recognition (OCR), and business rules. You also learn how to manage script versions and implement modularity and reuse.

Audience

This course is designed for developers.

Prerequisites

• Completion of Robotic Process Automation 23.0.x: Fundamentals of Task Automation (ZB506G)
• Completion of Robotic Process Automation 23.0.x: Building Attended and Unattended Bots (ZB507)
• Knowledge of data structures
• Basic knowledge of SQL syntax
• Basic knowledge of web services

Objective

• Implement Windows automation with the RPA Studio recorder to create script commands
• Implement surface automation with the Screen Capture Tool
• Use optical character recognition (OCR) to extract data from PDF and image files
• Incorporate business rules in scripts
• Implement version control, script modularity and reuse

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Unit 1. Document scraping
• Exercise 1. Creating a document scraping bot
• Unit 2. Extracting data with OCR
• Exercise 2. Automating OCR data extraction from image files
• Unit 3. Working with business rules
• Exercise 3. Working with business rules
• Unit 4. Reusing and administering bots
• Exercise 4. Reusing and administering bots
• Course summary