Unhandled exception using tabula (read_pdf) in built .exe

Question

Example code:

from tabula import read_pdf

def loadPDF(pdfPath):
    # Read tables from the PDF file
    tables = read_pdf(pdfPath, pages='all', multiple_tables=True)
    #tables = tabula.io.read_pdf(pdfPath, pages='all')

    return tables

tables = loadPDF('C:\\Users\\andyo\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\Code Projects\\Example\\ExamplePDF.pdf')

When I run this python script in the editor, it executes without error and I can continue working with the extracted dataframes.

After compiling the script into a standalone .exe and running it, this unhandled exception occurs:

Failed to execute script 'MinimumExample' due to unhandled exception: Command '['java','-Dfile.encoding=UTF8','-jar','C:\Users\andyo\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI209242\tabula\tabula-1.0.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar','--pages','all','--guess','--format','JSON','C:\Users\andyo\OneDrive\Desktop\Code Projects\Example\ExamplePDF.pdf']' returned non-zero exitstatus 1.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "MinimumExample.py", line 9, in File "MinimumExample.py", line 6, in loadPDF File "tabula\io.py", line 425, in read_pdf File "tabula\io.py", line 88, in _run File "subprocess.py", line 571, in run subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['java', '-Dfile.encoding=UTF8', '-jar', 'C:\Users\andyo\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI209242\tabula\tabula-1.0.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar', '--pages', 'all', '--guess', '--format', 'JSON', 'C:\Users\andyo\OneDrive\Desktop\Code Projects\Example\ExamplePDF.pdf']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

The command used to create the .exe:

PS C:\Users\andyo> python -m PyInstaller --onefile 'C:\Users\andyo\OneDrive\Desktop\Code Projects\Example\MinimumExample.py' --windowed --name "Minimum Example" -i='C:\Users\andyo\OneDrive\Desktop\Code Projects\Example\icon.ico'

Setup:

Using Python 3.12 Reinstalled tabula-py==2.7.0 due to an issue with the later 2.8 version. Fresh install of java.

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