[GNC-dev] Import PDF to GnuCash

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Jul 26 18:31:56 EDT 2018



> On Jul 26, 2018, at 12:56 PM, deltatango <davetinoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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...

It's very unlikely with the current very small development team.  We have other priorities that we expect to keep us fully engaged far into the future.

Regards,
John Ralls



More information about the gnucash-devel mailing list