This post was very helpful. I'm also a newbie and trying to get going on
beancount. So far I have a working beancount main file with most of the
accounts I want created. I have fava working too but focused more on just
getting data in. I got both* beancount-import* and *finance-dl* installed
but I can't get finance-dl to work.
Here is the output I get when I run the finance_dl CLI:
python3 -m finance_dl.cli --config-module mybasic_config --config myconfig
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/runpy.py",
line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/runpy.py",
line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/finance_dl/cli.py"
, line 91, in <module>
main()
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/finance_dl/cli.py"
, line 51, in main
spec = getattr(config_module, config_key, None)()
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 2:55:15 PM UTC+13, Eugeniu Plamadeala wrote:
>
> On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 3:46:09 PM UTC-8, Philip Curtis wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I've been wanting this for years, probably around 15! I'm
>> experimenting with some OCR Python code but wondering if the time
>> commitment would be unrealistic for me with also learning Beancount,
>> implementing the two, working full time, and having a 3year old and another
>> on the way.
>> Seems like the project for someone single living in their basement <;
>> Anyway, I'll continue to research the code.
>>
>
> Let's hope someone steps up then.
>
>
>> So the properly understand the workflow with Beancount, with I don't
>> completely right now, one processes financial data in these steps?
>> 1) Set up Beancount with all your income and expense accounts, the
>> .beancount file(s) are now available
>> 2) Implement Fava with Beancont
>> 3) Host all files to your own website servers
>> 4) Enter financial data through your website by text entry (or Fava GUI?)
>> 5) Process and graph your financial data via Fava on your website
>>
>> Do I have this process correct or am I way off?
>>
>
> Your steps look good, but some alternatives suggested below from personal
> experience:
> 3) I do not host files and Fava on a remote web server, but locally. It is
> not necessary to host remotely, and since you seem to care about data
> security, I suggest you keep everything on your machine.
> Furthermore,
> 4) I use the finance-dl package to automatically download all my
> transactions, as often as I want. It takes a minute. I enter very few
> transactions manually. Then, I use the beancount-import package (by the
> same author) to import the transactions into my Beancount files. This part
> is also very quick (at most 5 minutes per week). Paychecks are one class of
> transactions that require significant manual adjustment.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 5:17:37 PM UTC-6, ps150pta wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW about a year ago I ran some experiments passing photos of Whole
>>> Foods receipts through AWS Textract. It did pretty well but error rates are
>>> still relatively high, too high to be considered reliable enough to fit
>>> into a "user-just-confirms" workflow. Some additional work on top of
>>> Textract to build receipt-format-specific models could probably get there,
>>> tho.
>>>
>>> Many cos are successfully processing receipt photos on a commercial
>>> basis.
>>>
>>> PDFs that are machine produced are definitely processable with commodity
>>> tools, the extraction for them works quite well.
>>>
>>> I suspect sometime in the next year or two someone will put together a
>>> Jupyter notebook for doing the workflow you describe, building receipt
>>> specific models on one of the ML platforms. The basic pieces are there,
>>> it's at the level of being a solveable problem for a hobbyist.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 5:12 PM Philip Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks 😁
>>>>
>>>> Is #1 possible yet in any software technology yet?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Phil
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