[GNC] Third party OFX/CVS providers

[Adrien Monteleone]

Here's a use case:

Vendor invoices containing 10+ line items that need to be entered into 
both an accounting package and an inventory/POS system.

Multiply that case by a dozen or more a week.

And compound it by said 'PDF' invoice being a *scan*. (which of course 
means really good OCR needs to be in the workflow) Despite computers 
being near ubiquitous in business today, I'd hazard a guess of 93.46% of 
them are clueless as to how to use computers efficiently. It seems as if 
their approach is akin to someone with only a hammer, Duck Tape, & WD-40 
in their toolbox no matter what the job requires.

Now, let's multiply that again: you are the sole person responsible for 
this data entry for 2 or more businesses.

I'd rather have a script take me time to craft so I can one-click the 
data 'conversion' from print to CSV and then spend my time reviewing the 
result rather than a high chance of data entry taking even more of my time.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/7/22 8:12 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> I can't imagine having so many transactions that the time it took to program the process would in the end save me time in doing the accounting.
> 
> My method for processing pdf statements is to open the pdf statement in one window and enter my transactions in GnuCash in another-- the old fashioned way: by keying them in. This is remarkably quick in most cases, due to autofill-- and it gives me a sanity check on the data that's getting input (does that transaction look right?). It works pretty well for me.