Bank Statement Review with AI
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The Statement Processor reads PDF bank and credit card statements, extracts every transaction, and groups them by vendor. It's finished and on GitHub under an MIT license. Building it surfaced a problem worth writing down: even on a clean, digitally-generated PDF straight from the bank, the table extraction sometimes dropped a row, usually the last one in a transaction table. A sum check that compares the extracted transactions against the total the statement already prints on itself is what made the output trustworthy.