Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by mehrdadn on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:11PM (#23240902)

Can I ask how you parse PDFs? I'm curious both in terms of reading the PDF data (Python library?) and parsing it (regex?)... and do you have to deal with OCR as well?

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by haberman on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:18AM (#23254748)

I use "pdftotext -layout" and then parse that. Here is some more info from people who have tried this approach:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by mehrdadn on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:21AM (#23254763)

Thanks!

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