[GNC-dev] Import PDF to GnuCash

[Bob Gustafson]

Take a look at Tesseract

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract


On 07/26/2018 02:56 PM, deltatango 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...
>
>
>
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