📅 2025-03-15 — Session: Extracted and Structured Mercado Pago Transaction Data
🕒 01:05–01:50
🏷️ Labels: Mercado Pago, Transaction Data, Pdf Extraction, CSV, Error Handling
📂 Project: Accounting
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The main objective of this session was to extract and structure transaction data from a Mercado Pago account statement into a CSV format for financial tracking.
Key Activities
- Analyzed the structure of a Mercado Pago account statement to understand transaction classifications and financial tracking suggestions.
- Extracted transaction data from a PDF, structured it into a table, and saved it as a CSV file.
- Addressed issues with garbled text during PDF extraction by discussing the use of OCR and alternative PDF parsing methods due to Tesseract OCR limitations.
- Successfully extracted and structured transaction data, ensuring multi-line transaction IDs and descriptions were processed correctly.
- Diagnosed and fixed Python script errors related to header and transaction line processing, enhancing error handling.
Achievements
- Completed the extraction and structuring of transaction data into a CSV file, making it available for download.
- Resolved technical issues related to PDF text extraction and Python script errors, ensuring robust data processing.
Pending Tasks
- Further optimization of the PDF extraction process to handle more complex statement structures.
- Exploration of additional OCR solutions to improve text extraction accuracy.