📅 2025-03-15 — Session: Extracted and Structured Mercado Pago Transaction Data

🕒 01:05–01:45
🏷️ Labels: Mercado Pago, Transaction Data, CSV, Data Extraction, OCR
📂 Project: Accounting
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to extract transaction data from a Mercado Pago account statement, structure it into a table, and save it as a CSV file for financial tracking and analysis.

Key Activities

  • Analyzed the structure of a Mercado Pago account statement to understand transaction classifications.
  • Extracted transaction data from PDF files using data extraction techniques.
  • Addressed issues with garbled text in PDF extraction by proposing the use of OCR solutions.
  • Resolved errors related to missing language data in Tesseract OCR by considering alternative PDF parsing methods.
  • Successfully extracted and structured transaction data into a CSV format, providing a downloadable link for further analysis.

Achievements

  • Completed the extraction and structuring of transaction data from Mercado Pago statements.
  • Provided a downloadable CSV file for easy access and review.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement further automation for recurring transaction data extraction tasks.
  • Explore more robust OCR solutions to handle language data issues.