[GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers

[Peter West]

The other great tool for processing pdfs is PDFBox. It’s a java jar file, so you need to have a reasonably recent JVM installed.

https://pdfbox.apache.org/ <https://pdfbox.apache.org/>

I’m still using version2.
Here are the commandline tools.
https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/commandline.html <https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/commandline.html>


I have a series of scripts for various types of manipulation and text extraction.

It is worth noting that people who naïvely believe that text extraction from a PDF is simple will get burnt if they are not checking the results. PDF files are not obliged to store their text in any particular order. Mostly they do, until they don’t.

I can post my scripts if anyone is interested.

There are also a number of other tools for linux that i access on  my Mac through MacPorts.

God bless you.

—
Peter West
pbw at pbw.id.au
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”

> On 7 Aug 2022, at 2:52 am, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 11:43 AM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My scripts are in PowerShell. For GhostScript I'm just using CLI:
> 
> Thanks, Glenn, that's close to what I've found for Linux:
> 
>    $ gs -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf
> 
> It just needs some tweaking and post-conversion parsing (very bank
> specific). I'll see how my current PDF statements look after text
> conversion.
> 
> But I'll also keep looking at YNAB for a more general solution.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -Tom
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