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I wrote a program in Python, generated an .exe for it. Double clicking the .exe causes the program to run perfectly. It opens a pdf form in the same directory, processes the data from the form, and outputs a CSV with the consumed data.

When using Power Automate Desktop to run the same .exe the file runs, but then fails with an error: see below.

Is there something about the power Automate process that prevents the .exe from grabbing the pdf?

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Do you provide any inputs to your Python script when you run it manually? You might need to provide those, when running it via the Run application action, too.
Also, is 10 seconds enough for it to complete?

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with open('Rae2.pdf', 'rb') as fp:
parser = PDFParser(fp)

This is the part of the program that appears to be failing. So the program is looking for Rae2.pdf. If Power Automate is copying the program and running it from a different location then I could see needing to indicate to PA what file to use. Is that what is happening?

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You should probably specify the full path to the file in the script, as your script might be running from a different directory when launched from PAD than when it's launched from your .exe file manually.
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You nailed it sir.

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