Introduction to IQ Bot: How to Automate Business Processes with IQ Bot & RPA

Introduction to IQ Bot: How to Automate Business Processes with IQ Bot & RPA

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hello I’m John Stueve I’m a manager of automation  anywhere training and this is introduction to IQ   Bot uh first of all when we start talking  about IQ Bot we're talking about moving   semi-structured and unstructured data into  structured data or digital text and there's   different ways of doing that the normal way  with as far as RPA is concerned is using OCR   which has limited support and some limited  features within strictly RPA there are lots   of different vendors in the intelligent OCR space  and these are there are some limitations to that   as far as just the complexity and the investment  it takes to get up and going with those solutions   so we've gone through and found the best of both  worlds we've got worked through 14 years of our   domain expertise in RPA to combine the right set  of ai technologies in a cognitive solution that   can be trained and operational at scale with about  60 straight through processing within a few weeks   our computer vision uses a technologies like that  which is used for self-driving cars we use natural   language processing and fuzzy logic machine  learning language translation sentiment analysis   and chatbot those three can be leveraged using  third-party ai libraries through our RPA tool   so the integration of both cognitive  technologies like computer vision and fuzzy   logic and machine learning along with language  translation sentiment analysis and chat   allow us to handle business  processes across several domains   what really makes us more efficient is the cost it  takes to get set up with intelligent OCRs there's   a long lag time we can get IQ bought up an hour  a couple hours per bot for different types of   document training can get them up and moving so  that we can produce the benefits that we have   from transitioning from semi-structured data to  structured data within the automation processes   this is the typical process uh before where  which results in about a thirty to forty percent   straight through processing uh people have to  classify documents and sort them out then they   go through an OCR attempt and processing failed  box requires people to look at the documents and   make a determination whether it was a good scan or  not and then they validate that processes or the   outputs of those documents through the back office  at the end of that those two manual processes we   can go back to automation and trigger the approval  workflow and then people at the end can can uh can   finalize that review with IQ Bot and  RPA we have uh automated the extract   and digitize using the cognitive technologies  we have majority of that work is done with uh   just RPA with with our cognitive services and then  after the training of that the bot handles those   documents completely on its own there is a human  in the loop for any failed documents but as they   go through that validation process it uses machine  learning to inform the cognitive solution how to   to process similar errors in the future so over  time straight through processing grows and grows   after the process is finished that we  validate and trigger like we would before   and then we can also have assisted approvals  process where a bot and a human can work together   this is pretty much what every business process  has in common data capture enrichment validation   processing doing the actual work reconciling  that to make sure we have good audit and accuracy   and then analyzing reporting our carnot solution  IQ Bots helps us with the data capture helps us   with the data enrichment all those things can  occur prior to the robotic process automation   and then a smooth handoff between the two this is  the real benefit of using our cognitive solution   in accordance with our RPA solution so next thing  I want to do is just go through how we how how   this starts how can we start an IQ by process by  going through a learning instance or what we call   training alert learning instance first off we  need to have pretty good quality documents we   need to have them in a in a valid image format  could be either vector or raster or combination   tiff png jpeg vector all those are different  image formats that we support we also support   regular vector or raster pdf files or even plain  text pdf files it's best to use original scans   rather than scans of scans and it's best to scan  a fairly high dpi or 300 dpi is what we recommend   documents should be less than 10 megabytes  and should be should have a fairly structured   maybe a semi-structured format and each  document should be in a separate file   the process we're going to move through as  we go through this is to create the learning   instance classify it and let the the cognitive  solution go through a classification step   train the documents and let the process learn  where to find the information that's looking   to extract and then finally move that cognitive  solution into production where we're working with   real uh documents that have been scanned and  removing them through the IQ Bot so with that I’d   like to go back to my demo portion and today I’m  going to be using the community edition of IQ Bot   with this we have the ability to get started  by creating a new learning instance and the   first part of this opens up the learning  instances portion of the IQ Bot control room okay so we're going to create a new learning  instance and this new learning instance needs   to have a name what I’m going to do with this  learning instance is process a set of invoices   so I’m going to call my learning instances my  learning instance invoices for imagine I can   provide a description further of what this  learning instance is going to work through   and then I need to create the document  type we also call this the domain   in here we select invoices and then we can select  different types of languages if we want to when   we select invoices at the bottom we get the  different types of information we can extract   from an invoice and these are the top three are  selected by default and there's additional fields   we can get and in an invoice what we usually  see and let me bring up an example of an invoice   here this is what an invoice would look like  there's the top part of the screen is the form   and these things occur once per document including  some things at the bottom that occur once per   document and then there's repeating rows and these  are called the table part of the document where we   want to capture each row from this so we have two  sections in this document when we work through it   we have the sections for the common form fields  and then we have the section for the table or   repeated fields for this I’m going to select  invoice date invoice number invoice total I’m also   going to select billing address and payment terms  so we have an understanding of when we're supposed   to pay this invoice and how long for the repeated  segment I’m just going to capture the item   description item total and quantity and that sets  up the domain and tells us what the output's going   to be when we get our output file from the IQ Bot  we'll have columns for each one of these fields   in that output so we we've standardized now the  headers for our csv files the next thing I need   to do is browse and find a selection of documents  and if we had many documents we'd want to choose a   representative sample and I know from experience  that these three are a representative sample   of the different documents we have available  for this uh exercise so we're going to choose   three and send those up to the IQ Bot and that  includes the creation of the learning instance   now when I click on create the instance uh what  happens is it uploads it creates the the package   or the boundaries for that image within IQ Bot  and we'll be able to now describe that under   that learning instance name now it's taking these  documents that have been uploading and analyzing   it it's going through a classification which  things occur in which places which labels occur   in each places it does some semantic analysis and  aliases and then it's going to return us to the   place where we can continue to train our IQ Bot  and with this it's going to open up an interface   where we can see the document on one side and then  the fields we're trying to collect on the other   so here's an example of the first document and  it automatically formats these if we have similar   documents it'll it's going to group them into  one and we can see each document by clicking   here and view each group so this is invoice one  it looks like this and we can move to the second   invoice and choose either of these as the training  target and in this case when it reveals finishes   processing what that document looks like we'll  see the the appearance is the same but many of   the labels are the same format and the format of  the document is similar so it's put both of these   invoices in the same uh in the same field  so we're going to go back to our original   the one it picked first as its training  sample and examine what it was able to do   through its analysis of this document  and documents like it was able to say   I’m able to confidently select the invoice  date by this label so the invoice date field   has a label on the document as invoice date  and the field value is here 22nd august 2019   or 18. long time ago uh you'll notice in the scan  you'll have little blue lines these are called   system identified regions so it understands  there's information in these blocks and it   identifies which block goes with which label  automatically so all these green check marks is   IQ Bot saying this is what I think is right please  check my work so I can check with invoice total   we have I mean so invoice number it found a label  called invoice no and it found the value of 10 20   80. for invoice total it found invoice amount at  the bottom and associates that with the right data   billing address it found a simple word ultron  and what I want to collect is this whole billing   address so if I can drag one of these handles and  expand the box out to be able to capture the whole   all those serves within that region for sirs so  that's good I've corrected it a little bit on the   payment terms the same thing payment terms as  shown down here and it's picking the first of   two terms according to this invoice so I’m going  to drag it out to make sure we get the net 30 in   addition to the two percent due in 10 10 10 days  so that concludes the form fields the thing that   stays static on the on the document next we're  going to go to the table and the first part of the   table settings has some interesting things some  things we need to define the first is to I the   label along the table that's associated with one  line and has no additional information underneath   it is the best way to describe this so item total  while it's unique for each line in the amount   section so item total here if we look at what's  found let's find the amount column that's fine   for this but it's got additional information below  that what might be confused with this column if   we go back and we look at other columns the best  one is quantity it's here by itself it qualifies   one line per data item and there's no additional  information underneath it so it's going to save us   with any confusion we can also tell the bot where  the table section ends in this case we're just   going to select a label subtotal that happens  at the end of the of the repeated lines section   once we've done that we can go and check  where it's recognized the different   things we're looking for so it's recognizing  the column in this column we've got this little   hyphen and sometimes hyphens are recognized as  separators and we could it could end up becoming   two different groups so stretching this out to  cover that whole column is sometimes helpful   but it's not required for item total it's nothing  it'll grab this without any issues same thing with   item quantity it'll grab the single digits here  so at this point we've gone through each of the   different fields we're interested in capturing  we've identified and corrected IQ Bot where   it might have made a poor selection and we can  actually run this through the IQ Bot and see the   extraction results this is taking this document  running it through the classification system   running it through the analyzer and  pulling out information it'll show us   the document it used and then also the information  it was able to extract from that document so here's the first document has the  one with the with the scripted a logo   the information that extracted is here and we  could do a quick check as well as the table   repeating sections and seeing that we're  getting the full descriptions for each one   and then up at the top we can see these arrows  enabled to get to the next document I can click on   that wait for it to process and then we'll display  the second document and the information extracted   from there so here's the second document again  not as stylized but still the same information   and we're still grabbing the correct information  the address is complete the full payment terms   are complete the table repeated sections we have  the right information for each one of those so   we're done pretty good with this and those are  the only two documents in this group so then we   can go ahead and go back to training if we want  to we can export this to csv it'll go through and   take this information and put it into a csv file  and we can check that against what we're using   I’m going to go ahead and go back to training  here's the csv file let's go ahead and open it   and this just previews what  this would look like at the   other end when it is completed  and it's going to open in excel and this is what the excel file  looks like along the top of it   we see we have the same data element headers as  what we defined in our domain and this is the   data it extracted for form field information  like the date invoice number invoice total   uh those are always the same so they repeat  and then the payment turn the item description   item total and quantity are different for each  row so it flattens the data into a single file   and that's what we'll see on the output as well  now we're going to go back to training and this   takes us back to the beginning where we identified  labels and when we identified the labels   we identified the position in the document where  it's at IQ Bot does a fairly good job of handling   registration issues if the if it was scanned  slightly askew it can handle that they can also   handle lots of fuzziness in the images if there's  ever a time where the fuzziness of the image   impacts the resolution IQ Bot will say I wasn't  able to get good data and it'll put into what's   called a validation queue where a human can assist  and help make corrections to that and as the human   is correcting those defects in the document or the  defects in the scan the bot's going to learn from   that so if it's something that's repeating quite  a bit smudge on the glass of the scanning document   or something like that IQ Bot can actually learn  from that and improve over time to actually   incorporate that that defect into its analysis  and get faster straight through processing okay so now we're complete we've gone through  it we looked at the extraction results   we've seen the information here so we can  go ahead and save this group of documents   and go to the next group so remember we  uploaded three documents we've seen two   and now we're going to go and train on the  third document which is a slightly different   style than the first so we're going  to wait for that document to load here's the second document from angel traders  and it's formatted slightly differently and so it   requires a different training or a different group  to be trained same information invoice date it's   finding correctly invoice number it says invoice  number sign as the label but it's finding the   correct information here invoice total same thing  down here at the bottom it's capturing the correct   label and the correct value for billing address  we have a similar thing where it's only capturing   the first name of the company we can expand this  box out again to capture all of the address field   and then come down to payment terms and  here it doesn't have the green check mark   it doesn't know it can't find what the  payment terms are so we can inspect this   invoice and see oh here's where the payment  terms are here in the other comments label so   the highlight here is field label if we click  on the label other comments it's going to run   through a quick analysis and figure out  what it thinks the correct value should be   in this case it's handled tax rate and that's not  what we want we want it behind here so we can come   and click the draw for this field value click on  the draw icon and now I have a crossbar I could   take this crossbar and then expand it over the  place where I expect payment term values to be and   then it associates the other comments label with  this area to extract the details so that handles   that comment for the table settings we're going  to use the same thing we're going to find the best   column that describes one per row and also  has nothing underneath it so quantity again   seems to be our best bet here the next thing we  want to end the table at a certain section and   again subtotal is the label that marks the end of  the repeating rows so we'll mark as subtotal there   and then we're just going to check  to see how our labels are defined   uh IQ Bot does a good job of identifying  where the breaks are so as long as the   header in this case the description  is can aligned with where things are   we're good with that and we can check and  see the extraction results of this one just to double check and make sure  that our information is correct okay so here's the output for the angel traders  document and we can see the information was   extracted correctly along with all of the items  from some item to December soup everything was   extracted correctly so we can go back to  training and when we're back with training   we're going to save and close this one and  we'll be done with training this instance so we're back to the training situations  we can we've identified all of our fields   we can go and save this instance as well so both  groups have we've reviewed and trained each group   we're going to go back to  the learning instance screen and once it says there we it gives us  information about what to do with here   and we can use upload documents with RPA  to be able to process things we're going   to set this to close and then we're going to  set this learning instance into production   training is complete and we can set this learning  instance called invoices imagine to production and   now it's ready to handle documents uploaded from  the RPA side so I’m going to go to my RPA and I   have a bot already loaded up here that's going to  go through and handle these documents and upload   them to the server and the process of this is  just to identify which folder my documents are in   so the folder that I’m working with here is  uh c colon IQ Bot sample docs invoices which   is this directory here which has all 10 of the  different documents we're going to be working with   then we go through a loop through each file in  this folder and we're using folder path as a   variable to identify that the output of this  folder goes to a dictionary of strings and if   you read the fine print of there there's two keys  in this dictionary one called name and one called   extension and we can use that in the upload  process and when we go to the upload process   it's going to communicate with the IQ Bot server  to identify which learning instances are available   and this is from a preview and then we loop  through this folder and the output of that folder   is a direct dictionary of strings and in the fine  print it says there's a name key and an extension   key for the file extension so inside this loop  through files and folders I’m using those three   elements the first one is the folder path for  the directory that I’m has the files and then   there's a direct dictionary variable with name key  a period and then a dictionary uh variable with an   extension key will upload these documents so with  all that I can save my bot and I've selected the learning instance we created here from this  drop down menu and then save the bot and now   I'll run the bot and it should run and upload  to my upload those documents to the IQ Bot server and as it's uploading the IQ Bot documents to the   IQ Bot server we can see that now  it's processing these documents   and it's in the yet to be classified it'll go  through a classified section and continually   continue to move through these documents as it's  going through the system so there it's received   all 10 documents that I've uploaded it'll  start sorting through these documents here when it's finished with the process we can go into  IQ but I’m going to create another bot to download   the documents or the extractions that we were  related from this so I’m going to create a new bot in private and create a new bot for extracting  the information so we're going to call this IQ Bot download to download documents we'll need to create a  bot that uses the IQ Bot download to do this   so we're going to download all documents for the  download all documents step we're going to choose   the learning instance name uh which document  status it is success or failure you can choose   success invalid unclassified or untrained in this  case we want to get the results of a good training   we're going to paste in our cognitive output here  so that's the directory where we should see this   and I'll go ahead and delete the files  on the server when it's happening and   save my response to prompt assignment  apply that and do a quick message box   to show the results of this process by showing  the message that's stored in the prompt assignment   I’m going to click on apply click  run oh make sure I save my bot and then click run success that's what we like to see and success  from my bot and we'll see the directory that I   had the cognitive output has a list of files each  of these lists of files has a unique identifier   plus the file name that we use so the first file  that we sent it is the tiff231 this one if we look   at the results of it we can see we have a single  csv with a single row on it so this is tiff one   select all rows double click to see all the data  and we've gotten all the data available for that   it also tells the truth here so let  me let me show that one more time   close this open up this csv file and we'll see the  results of the extraction from that one document   so we can expand this out and see all the columns  it has all the details from the form elements   it has the details from the repeating elements and  whether or not it was successful or not comes in   the output and so these files would then be the  next part of the phase that's done through RPA   can be used to fill out things in erp or crm  and this is the results of the IQ Bot process   and I want to remind everybody  to go be great have a great day

2021-02-21 20:37

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