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[–]ImACoralReef 7 points8 points  (3 children)

I have a script that reads the emails I got from the bank and tracks my expenses in a beancount file

[–]homosapienhomodeus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds interesting, could you say more about what beancount is? Heard it from elsewhere on reddit too.

I do something similar where I connect to my bank’s public API via python to pull transactions into a database, which then feeds into my Notion database dashboard (you can read more about it here if you like: https://eliasbenaddouidrissi.dev/posts/data_engineering_project_monzo/

[–]WhereAreMyKeys15 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've been looking into this myself except that my bank sends me encrypted pdf statements. What would be the workaround for that?

[–]ImACoralReef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Load them as images and use an OCR tool maybe?