[GNC-dev] Import PDF to GnuCash

[deltatango]

Hello,

Very interested in the possibility of importing PDF statements into GnuCash.

I know Quickbooks now has this functionality.

I searched online and found a few clunky possibilities that would convert
the data into excel which can then be converted to csv and then imported
into GnuCash.

I was envisioning a system where you select a PDF statement to be imported.

The program then asks you to select the area of the statement which contains
the transactions, much like a photoshop selection. (And perhaps you could
save templates of selections for different statements).

Then some kind of OCR scanning reads the columns and data and convert it to
columns/rows.

Is this in the realm of possibility for some future release?

It is so common now that exporting csv or qfx ,etc files from your bank only
go so far back and you have to download PDFs instead...

I dream, I hope...

But in vain I wish not...



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