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Automating with images

Automating with images

- [Instructor] When other methods of automation fail, we can rely on image automation. Image automation is going to allow us to capture a specific set of pixels on our screen. And then when we play our automation back, it is going to look for those pixels on the screen and if the resolution match, it is going to click in that area. This is very useful when we are having a really hard time finding a stable selector for a specific, very complex automation that we are working on. In Microsoft Power Automate Desktop, there are a few ways that we can interact with images. If we type images inside of the actions, we'll find a few ways that we can use images inside of our process. If image and Wait for image are going to allow a process to execute different conditions if the image is found or wait for the image to load on the screen before executing certain actions. The Move mouse to image action is going to be the main action that is going to move the mouse to a specific part of the screen…

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