Automate it! – Recipes to upskill your business

Book Description

Key Features

• The Python recipes covered in the chapters of this book will help you gain knowledge and encourage you to automate your critical business flows.
• You will learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data from the web, build conversational bots, develop your own scanner using computer vision techniques, leverage cloud telephony, and automate social media data analysis including visualisation.
• This book is designed for Python developers of any experience level, and the recipe-based approach will allow you to run code and get instant results.

Book Description

This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.

A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You’ll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes.

Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs. This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.

What you will learn

• To automate business processes and make them efficient with Python recipes
• Explore the power of REST APIs and implement Web hooks. Work with Twitter  REST APIs and post automated tweets with Python.
• Understand the world of Cloud telephony and implement business use cases with SMS and Voice Notification with Python bindings.
• Manipulate images and learn how to use Python’s Computer Vision for face detection and automate business tasks. Have you thought of making your organisation go paperless?
• Learn about conversational bots and implement one of your own using Python. You will also learn to integrate AI to your bots.
• Understand Data analysis and generate interesting insights on your data using Python’s modules for data filtering and visualisation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Working with the Web
Chapter 2. Working with CSV and Excel Worksheets
Chapter 3. Getting Creative with PDF Files and Documents
Chapter 4. Playing with SMS and Voice Notifications
Chapter 5. Fun with E-mails
Chapter 6. Presentations and More
Chapter 7. Power of APIs
Chapter 8. Talking to Bots
Chapter 9. Imagining Images
Chapter 10. Data Analysis and Visualizations
Chapter 11. Time in the Zone

中文：

书名：实现自动化！&#8211；提升业务技能的秘诀

主要特点

• 本书各章中介绍的Python食谱将帮助您获取知识，并鼓励您自动执行关键业务流程。
• 您将学习如何构建从Web上抓取数据的Python脚本、构建会对话的机器人、使用计算机视觉技术开发您自己的扫描仪、利用云电话以及自动化社交媒体数据分析(包括可视化)。
• 这本书是为任何经验水平的Python开发人员设计的，基于配方的方法将允许您运行代码并立即获得结果。

Book Description

本书为您提供了大量使用Python自动化业务流程的食谱，并为您提供了一个平台，让您了解Python如何有助于提高耗时和重复性的业务任务的效率。Python是一种成熟的高级语言，具有面向对象的编程功能，支持各种应用程序，拥有大量的模块和强大的社区支持。Python非常易于使用，可以帮助您高效地完成复杂的任务，是满足我们需求的合适选择。通过经典的基于问题解决方案的方法和真实世界的示例，您将深入了解自动化您的业务流程的事情。您将从学习使用Web、工作表、演示文稿和PDF的Python模块开始。您将利用Python食谱来自动化人力资源、财务部门的流程，并使其高效可靠。例如，公司薪资是人力资源中不可或缺的一个流程，它将通过Python食谱实现自动化。

这本书的几个章节还将帮助你获得有关使用机器人和计算机视觉的知识。您将学习如何通过集成人工智能来构建自动化业务用例的机器人。您还将了解Python在人脸检测和构建您自己的扫描仪方面是如何有帮助的。您将看到如何高效、轻松地使用Python代码来管理短信和语音通知，从而打开使用云电话来解决您的业务需求的可能性。接下来，您将学习如何使用API、WebHook和电子邮件来自动执行营销和客户支持流程。

最后，使用各种Python库，本书将为您提供定制数据解决方案和生成报告以满足您的业务需求的知识。这本书将帮助您提高技能，并使您的业务流程有效率与本书中涵盖的各种Python食谱。

你将学到什么

• 要使业务流程自动化，并使用Python食谱使其高效
• 探索REST API的强大功能并实现Web挂钩。使用Twitter和REST API，并使用Python发布自动推文。
• 了解云电话世界，并通过使用Python绑定的短信和语音通知实施业务用例。
• 操作图像并学习如何使用Python的计算机视觉进行人脸检测和自动执行业务任务。您想过让您的组织实现无纸化吗？
• 了解对话机器人，并使用Python实现一个您自己的机器人。你还将学习如何将人工智能集成到你的机器人中。
• 了解数据分析，并使用Python的数据过滤和可视化模块对您的数据进行有趣的洞察。

目录表

第1章：使用Web
第2章.使用CSV和Excel工作表
第3章：使用PDF文件和文档进行创造性开发
Chapter 4. Playing with SMS and Voice Notifications
Chapter 5. Fun with E-mails
第6章.演示文稿和更多内容
第七章API的强大功能
第八章：与机器人对话
第九章想象中的图像
第十章：数据分析和可视化
第11章.禁区内的时间