I have seen this happen a few times with DocuSign + Power Automate. Even if the anchor text is visible when you search the PDF, the DocuSign connector sometimes fails to detect it depending on how the PDF was generated. If the PDF is coming from HTML → PDF conversion, the anchor text might not be embedded as clean text and DocuSign can’t properly recognize it.
A few things worth checking:
• Make sure the anchor text is plain text (not inside images or special formatting).
• Try placing the anchor on a separate line without extra characters around it.
• Confirm the anchor string in the envelope action matches exactly (case sensitive).
• Test with a very simple anchor like SIGN_HERE to rule out formatting issues.
In some projects I ended up slightly modifying the HTML template before generating the PDF so the anchor text renders cleanly, and that usually fixes the detection issue.
