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Business Automation with Python 3: Getting Started

Python is a dynamic language that effortlessly allows you to perform impressive feats of automation. If you've ever spent hours doing repetitive tasks, you'll love this topic, as it will teach you how the computer can do the work for you.

Ed Freitas - Pluralsight course - Business Automation with Python 3: Getting Started
by Ed Freitas

What you'll learn

If you've ever spent hours renaming, copying, moving files or extracting data from PDFs, and entering data into systems like Salesforce, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do these activities for you?

In this course, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do manually.

This course teaches you everything you need to know in order to work with files, read, extract and combine data from PDF files.

You'll also learn how to fill in online forms automatically, with the data gathered from PDF files.

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each of the Python scripts that perform these tasks, so you can spend less time doing tedious tasks, and more time doing other things.

By the end of this course, you will have gained fundamental know-how on how to use Python to automate business processes that will change your way of working forever.

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About the author

Ed Freitas - Pluralsight course - Business Automation with Python 3: Getting Started
Ed Freitas

Eduardo is a technology enthusiast, software architect and customer success advocate. He's designed enterprise .NET solutions that extract, validate and automate critical business processes such as Accounts Payable and Mailroom solutions. He's a well-known specialist in the Enterprise Content Management market segment, specifically focusing on data capture & extraction and document process automation.

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