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Is Ui automation possible/effective with Matlab?

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I am a novice in matlab programming, but have some interest in Ui automation. I have some basic experience in UiPath (Robotic Process Automation). Now my question is: is it possible to do UiPath-like Ui automation through Matlab (and potentially third-part-applications), such as
  • Open external applications (including web browser and non-Microsoft)
  • Send hotkeys to external applications
  • Extract information from external application
  • Screen scraping from external application
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Jan
Jan on 18 Oct 2018
What exactly is "non-Microsoft"? "Extract information from external application" can mean nearly everything, so this is hard to answer.
Johnny Birch
Johnny Birch on 18 Oct 2018
Hi Jan, I don’t have any specific example but by non-Microsoft I mean application which are not standard in Windows. It could be an Adobe application. And by “Extract information” it could be a text section or author name from a .pdf file. It could also be something different from Adobe like a playlist from Spotify.

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Jan
Jan on 19 Oct 2018
This is a very general job. Of course you can do this with Matlab, e.g. using FEX: keyinject and FEX: textinject, but there are other tools available, which handle such an automation more reliable and easier, e.g. AutoIt. See a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_GUI_testing_tools
I recommend not to reinvent the wheel but stay at one of the already working and freely available solutions instead of creating a new implementation in Matlab.

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