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		sudhirj on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction? Building personal finance app to keep track of multiple bank accounts and investments, categorising spends, etc. Parsing statement PDFs from every bank is pretty hellish.

wdb on March 3, 2020 [–]

That’s why the open banking api is amazing these days

In the past we did purposely make it more difficult to parse our PDFs

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