1.

RPA and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR):

Smart Data Capture

Intelligent Character Recognition, or ICR, is a derivative of the

classic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and it's one of the
latest most exciting acronyms that you'll want to learn. Intelligent
OCR equips RPA with the capability to automate the more difficult
cases where unstructured and semi-structured content is involved.

Invoices, for example (although it can be any non-standard

document or form) all contain more or less the same type of
information but can be formatted in varying ways. And some
companies process millions of them.

Think of it as RPA’s sidekick. It helps solve the critical problem of

digitization, which is the sine qua non of the end-to-end automation
of many business processes, whether it's customer onboarding,
account opening, claims handling, supply chain management, HR
records processing or education system applications. All processes
where inputs are received in multiple varied formats such as PDF,
scanned, fax, email and handwritten documents will need the
golden touch of intelligent OCR.

Read this whitepaper developed by PWC to learn about intelligent

data capture in today's automation and digital transformation space
in your industry, and deep dive into UiPath’s latest OCR capabilities
 2. UiPath Web Automation – One Stop Solution To Web
Extraction

Enterprises and startups, both of them set their applications on widely structured web-
based systems. Information present in these web-based systems is quite complex and
needs extensive processing to be read, understood and analyzed. Well, to this, we
need robotic process automation. With the help of UiPath Web Automation, we can
automate various kinds of tasks such as form filling, screen scraping, data extraction
website testing and so on.

The following topics will be covered in this article :

 What is Robotic Process Automation?

 What is UiPath?
 What is Web Automation?
 Usage of Web Automation
 Hands-On: Web Scraping of Google Contacts
 Hands-On: Extracting Data From a E-Commerce Website and storing in Email

So, let us get started!!

What is Robotic Process Automation?

The Process of automating the workflows with the help of robots/software to reduce
the involvement of humans is said to be Robotic Process Automation.

Over here there are mainly three terms that you need to understand: Robotic,
Process and Automation. Let me explain you each of these terms one by one.

 Robotic: Entities which mimic human actions are called Robots.

 Process: Sequence of steps which lead to meaningful activity. For example,
the process of making tea or your favorite dish etc.
 Automation: Any process which is done by a robot without human intervention.

If we summarize all the terms together then, mimicking human actions to perform a
sequence of steps that lead to a meaningful activity, without any human intervention
is known as Robotic Process Automation.

Now, to implement Robotic Process Automation, we need tools, and one such tool is,
UiPath. So, next in this article on UiPath Web Automation, let us get a brief on UiPath.

What is UiPath?
UiPath is a Robotic Process Automation tool used mainly for Windows Desktop
Automation. This tool offers a Community Edition, which is free for lifetime and works
on the feature of Drag and Drop functionalities. With UiPath, you can perform various
types of automation such as Excel Automation, Citrix Automation, Web
Automation, PDF Automation and so on. Well, in this article we will focus on Web
Automation.

What is Web Automation?

Web Automation is a process of automation through which you can identify the web
elements by their attributes and manipulate them accordingly. This kind of automation
works with any website, and can also be remotely deployed on various machines in
the network. UiPath provides a built-in recorder that can read and enact web-based
activities with the help of an intuitive graphical workflow editor.

UiPath Web Automation | Automate Web Data Extraction

– UiPath Studio |
Now, let us look into the top implementations of Web Automation in UiPath.

Usage of Web Automation

The top usages of web automation in today’s industry are:

 Data Extraction: Humongous amount of data can be extracted and stored into
files and databases from various websites.
 Recording: Actions performed on a website can be recorded to implement
them further in the future.
 Website Testing: Your website functionalities and features can be tested
according to the requirement of the user.
 Report Generation: A report can be generated by extracting all data and then
analyzing it on various parameters.
 Application Transfer: Applications can be transferred from one domain to
another, on the basis of use-requirement.
Web scraping can be used for various types of web page formats such as JSON,
HTML. Now, that you what is web automation, let us see a practical approach on how
to use UiPath to perform Web Automation.We will see two hands-on in this article.
They are:

 Scraping data from Google Contacts

 Scraping data from an E-Commerce Website and storing in e-mail