Jing61212Q: Can I automate my desktop application ? For example preps 9?
I just wanted to know if I can actually automate everything on my computer for example preps 9 which is an application on my desktop computer. Like taking a pdf file to a template and then basically change the settings based on the file or something like that.
Faik_Robomotion
Nov 29, 2025A: Hello Jing,
It mainly comes down to the technology it is built with. Web apps are usually easier to automate than desktop apps because of the HTML DOM and the control you have over it. Windows desktop apps come next, using UI Automation, but it also depends on how the app is implemented. If the controls are accessible, things become easier; otherwise, the last resort is image-based automation plus keyboard and mouse actions, similar to macro recording.
In this case, menus, dialogs, lists, and property panes seem to be accessible via Windows UI automation. The interactive canvas and some graphics-heavy areas are likely custom-drawn, so there you may need image or coordinate-based clicks and keyboard shortcuts. It’s not trivial, but it looks manageable, and would probably require a mix of Windows UI automation, image automation, and keyboard/mouse automation.
Best,
Verified purchaser
I wanted to do something like send a pdf with specific dimensions and the ai agents will understand and adjust the settings accordingly based on what I told him, and then export it as a jdf file. Can it do it?
If you can join our Discord and send me a before and after PDFs, I would like to take a look. If it is just a conversion, there may be other ways to do this, too.