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Business Automation with Python: Getting Started

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Overview

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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.

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.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 2mins
  • File Automation Tasks 34mins
  • PDF Data Extraction Automation 11mins
  • Salesforce Data Entry Automation 12mins

Taught by

Eduardo Freitas

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