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I download my bank/cc statements once every few months and run them through some homemade cleanup scripts, then I could technically plug it into a tool like this.

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I also have some clean up scripts, but the worst part is I have to manually select the tables to extract in the PDF using Tabula. There's still some serious manual reconciliation between credit card and bank statements. I feel good doing it, but it's a slog.

Technically, I might be able to get something similar by using some website to download everything, but honestly I don't trust them. I don't want all of my banking, investment, and spending information consolidated in one place for some tech bro douche bag to sell off to some richer fucks and then lose it to some hackers.

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Paisa supports PDF import (very rough implementation), but the problem is actually simpler compared to what tabula is trying to solve. I just need a 2 dimensional array and then the template can easily filter out non financial data by checking if specific column is Date. I have tried it personally on a few PDFs, it worked well except one which had a two column layout.

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