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A lot of these RPA processes use tools like UiPath to automate clicks on a Windows desktop computer. The article's stated use case (scanning paper applications
by eastbayjake 7y ago
A lot of these RPA processes use tools like UiPath to automate clicks on a Windows desktop computer. The article's stated use case (scanning paper applications and entering it into the system) sounds like OCR getting text off the page, doing some sanity checks, then keying it into the system with automated clicks in a VM.
Ordinarily you'd just expose an API to pass through that data, but for lots of legacy systems it's faster and less expensive to have an RPA bot just literally key data into the old interface.
Source: the enterprise things these eyes have seen