Loading bank excerpts into GNUCash automatically

[Simon Vandemoortele]

Dear fellow GNUCash users,

I would like to know if any of you have encountered this problem before 
and if so, what solution you have come up with.

Problem:
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My bank allows me to download my bank account excerpts in tab-separated 
text files. I would very much like to automatically generate GNUCash 
transactions from these excerpts.
Strictly speaking, this is of course an unsolvable problem since 
user-input is required to decide the "from" and "to" accounts of a 
transaction. (Only I can really know what the banking transaction means.)
Still 50% of my banking transactions  could be  detected and translated 
to GNUCash transactions automatically.

State of affairs:
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To solve this problem I've considered writing a script to do the 
conversions I need. I am however unsure about the way I should insert 
the information into GNUCash; should I simply add transactions to the 
.xac file ? should I generate a QIF file and import it ?

Solutions:
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I am confident other people must have attempted the same feat. What 
advice can you give me ?


Best Regards,
Simon Vandemoortele