📅 2025-03-15 — Session: Enhanced Transaction Data Pipeline
🕒 02:20–03:05
🏷️ Labels: Transaction, Data Extraction, CSV, Encoding, PDF
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to refine the transaction extraction process, address PDF text extraction issues, and ensure accurate CSV parsing and encoding.
Key Activities
- Refined Transaction Extraction Process: Improved parsing by focusing on valid transaction rows and ignoring irrelevant content.
- Fixed PDF Text Extraction Issues: Addressed multi-line descriptions and misplaced fields in PDFs to enhance extraction logic.
- Successful Data Extraction and Cleaning: Extracted and cleaned Mercado Pago transaction data, ensuring correct parsing and handling of multi-line descriptions.
- Fixed CSV Parsing Issues: Resolved common CSV parsing errors in pandas by wrapping text fields in double quotes.
- Corrected CSV File: Re-saved CSV with properly quoted text fields to prevent parsing errors.
- Fixed File Encoding Issues: Addressed encoding errors by re-saving CSV with UTF-8 with BOM encoding.
Achievements
- Successfully extracted and cleaned transaction data from Mercado Pago.
- Corrected CSV parsing and encoding issues, ensuring data integrity.
Pending Tasks
- Monitor the transaction extraction process for any new issues or improvements.