Discover RPA Software For Linux in 2024

Updated on Jan 10

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Why use RPA in Linux?RPA tools for Linux

Most RPA bot development is going on in Windows machines since most corporate end users rely on Windows. However, Linux operating system has particular advantages over MacOS and Windows and RPA can add value to Linux systems as well.

Some of Linux’s advantages over Windows are

Linux is a open-source operating system
Linux is considered to be the most stable and resilient operating system and is trusted by enterprises for supporting their core systems
Linux as minimal hardware requirements and can run a wide range of systems including edge systems

Why use RPA in Linux?

Linux systems come with extensive scripting capabilities and Linux users tend to be technically savy. As a result, repetitive work on Linux systems tends to be automated. However, RPA can have benefits for Linux users as well:

RPA relies on user interfaces for automation which is an automation approach not widely followed by Linux scripting tools. Linux systems interfacing with legacy systems could benefit from RPA in facilitating integration.
Using automation tools that cover all available operating systems, companies can reuse their RPA bots across different operating systems and minimize their bot maintenance costs.

RPA tools for Linux

Below table is a list of RPA tools that are compatible with Linux:

Vendor Name	Company Size (# of employees)	Is it open-source?	Pricing	Highlights
Argos Labs	11-50	No	Free trial
Automagica	1-10	No	Not available	Automagica is acquired by Netcall plc and it is no longer open- source since October 2020
RoboCorp	11-50	Yes	Free if number of users is less than 5
Sikulix	-	Yes	Free	-supports following scripting languages: Python language level 2.7 (supported by Jython), RobotFramework text-scripts, Ruby language level 1.9 and 2.0 (supported by JRuby), JavaScript (supported by the Java Scripting Engine) -requires Tesseract for OCR functionality
T-Plan	11-50	No	Not available	-14 days free trial -enables GUI / screen interaction, OCR text extraction & image recognition
TagUI	-	Yes	Free	-Available under Apache 2.0 license which makes it free for commercial and noncommercial use -Suitable for OCR (built-in), UI automation, desktop& web applications, direct ML model Integration (with API / R code / Python)
UI.Vision	-	Yes	Free	-Data extraction and screen scraping capabilities -Produces automation scripts for Windows, Mac, and Linux

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