📅 2025-10-27 — Session: Enhanced Automation and Data Processing Workflows
🕒 19:00–21:10
🏷️ Labels: Automation, Data Processing, Cron Jobs, Pdf Processing, Document Triage
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal:
The session aimed to enhance automation and data processing workflows by addressing cron job failures, optimizing data ingestion processes, and improving document and PDF processing pipelines.
Key Activities:
- Cron Job Troubleshooting: Explored common reasons for cron job failures and implemented a robust wrapper script for improved logging and error handling.
- Data Ingestion Analysis: Conducted a forensic analysis of data ingestion and normalization processes, identifying issues with duplicate logging and data invariants.
- Document Triage Automation: Developed a systematic approach for automating document triage using JSON/YAML schemas, SQLite database integration, and a deterministic classifier algorithm in Python.
- PDF Processing Enhancements: Improved PDF text extraction scripts to handle both digital and scanned PDFs, including troubleshooting potential failures and implementing robust solutions.
Achievements:
- Implemented logging and error handling improvements in cron jobs.
- Identified and addressed data quality issues in the ingestion process.
- Automated document triage with a new schema and classifier.
- Enhanced PDF text extraction capabilities with improved scripts.
Pending Tasks:
- Further optimization of Makefile targets and cron job configurations for BD CSV generation.
- Continued refinement of the inbox parser for the accounting project, focusing on mutation instructions and downstream processes.