I Automated a $5k Forensic Accounting Job with Python Posted by cd_mkdir on Friday February 06, 2026 @07:02PM from the medium.com dept. https://medium.com/@ihatevcman/i-automated-a-5-000-forensic-accounting-job-with-python-and-why-they-hate-me-for-it-4e5ce2417a8c ( 1 comment | on HN )
The Hard Part was OCR. I benchmarked Tesseract vs. Mistral OCR-3 on messy bank PDFs; Mistral won because it understands table layouts.
Built with Django/Celery to handle 10k+ transaction ledgers.
Happy to answer questions about the OCR pipeline or the graph theory implementation.