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Limitations of RPA

Limitations of RPA It is these benefits that are generating the boom in the interest of the  RPA  and a good measure of exaggeration. However, each technology has its limitations, and RPA is best seen as an additional level of cost reduction and a fundamental technology instead of an operational panacea. Limitations of RPA include : First, RPA can not read any non-electronic data with unstructured entries. An example would be incoming correspondence, such as customers' printed letters. When a client sends a letter to their energy company or bank, it is usually an unstructured document. A company would then receive, scan and reassign this letter to the correct department for processing. In this case, RPA will only work with a collection of other implemented technologies (such as OCR) necessary to make it digital and structured. This can become a costly obstacle before RPA can be applied, and companies can consider other solutions such as direct processing, digital capture, p