📅 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.