Leaving your comfort zone never is easy – but progress usually doesn’t happen there. After almost 15 years of working with Kofax and a few working for them, it is time for me to move[…]
Building Awesome Forms in Kofax TotalAgility
Introduction One of my favorite features of TotalAgility is that building an user interface is dead simple – dragging controls and making them reactive with actions rarely takes longer than just a few minutes. Here[…]
Future Focus of this Blog and a big Thank You!
When I started this blog back in 2012, I hadn’t a specific focus in mind. I just started working as a freelancer back then, still being a part-time student – and much of this still[…]
Kapow vs. UiPath, Part IV: Files, Web Services and Emails
This is the fourth part of the Kapow vs UiPath series (you can find part 1, and part 2 and part 3 here). While last time UiPath was my favorite in almost every aspect of[…]
Allowing your Users to Report Issues
Revisiting your projects every once in a while is a great idea, and when talking to key users they often will confirm that there are some issues with the setup. Yet, their answers usually are[…]
Kapow vs. UiPath, Part III: Desktop Automation
This is the third part of my Kapow vs UiPath series (you can find part 1 and part 2 here). Last time I analyzed how Kapow and UiPath perform when it comes to Web Automation[…]
Kapow vs. UiPath, Part II: Web Automation
This is the second part of my Kapow vs UiPath series. If you haven’t checked out the first article yet, please do so here. This week I am going to focus on one of the[…]
Kapow vs. UiPath, Part I: Foundation and Robot Design
Introduction It’s hard to ignore the hype about Robotic Process Automation (RPA), so please reserve me a seat on the bandwagon: this is the first part of a series where I will take a closer[…]
Integrating Emails into Kapow
Sending emails in Kapow is easy – just define your SMTP server, add a Send Email action – and you are set. But what about the opposite: what if you want your robots to work[…]
Robots building Robots: Creating a Type from JSON
I just love the fact that Kapow allows you to automate almost anything. Anything, you say? Well, how about a Robot that builds parts of itself? This post will show you how to create a[…]
Extending Kapow’s Capabilities with Python
Kofax’ Products are all about extensibility: you can include custom dlls into Capture, Transformations and TotalAgility alike to add functionality that wasn’t there in the first place. But what about Kapow? Unfortunately, we don’t have[…]
Reading Barcodes in KTA
Even without Transformation Server, TotalAgility is absolutely capable of reading barcodes during scan time. However, how can you access said barcodes and store them in a variable? This article will cover the creation of a[…]
Integrating Google Cloud Vision with Kapow
What if your robots were able to understand the content of images? Google Cloud Vision is a powerful API that integrates perfectly with Kapow and dramatically enhances its capabilities with computer vision. Here, let’s have[…]
Writing a Download Handler for KTA
As much as I like KTA’s Forms and especially the WebCapture control, there’s no out-of-the box solution for downloading files. Just imagine: while the control can display (most) files including PDF and office formats, you[…]
Viewing Documents in any Activity
What if you wanted to allow users to optionally attach documents to any process or case? How difficult would it be to display them? What’s the best approach, should we use a folder variable or document sets?[…]
Fuzzy Database Queries from Script (revised)
Querying a fuzzy database in Kofax Transformations can be a hassle – if you are to follow the official script sample provided with KTM/KTA. For once, it’s overly complicated, outdated and not all parts of the[…]
Agile Academy and what I learned
I was excited to join Kofax’ Agile Academy here in Vienna. There were many questions I had: would there be many others in EMEA working (and struggling) with Kofax TotalAgility? What is everyones level of[…]
Swapping OCR Representations in KTM
This isn’t a post about which OCR engine is better. Sometimes FineReader will do a better job, sometimes RecoStar shines. In fact, sometimes you’d love to work with the result of both engines. Kofax Transformation however[…]
Scripting with Style
Let’s face it: even without the zero-code approach in KTA, you will reach a certain point where a script locator will do the job much quicker than anything else. In Kofax Transformations (formerly KTM), scripting[…]
Order To Chaos: Version Control and Transformations
If your backup and developing strategy involves creating lots of folder copies, manual comparison of two different versions and storing the final release candidate on a file server in a zip named such as “acme-invoices-v1.4_final.zip”[…]