Tesseract.js VS hledger

What do you have against tesseract.js?

Are you able to use a OCR library in the browser? Here is one I found

But keep in mind, PDFs can be fully or partially made of images, and if you want text out of those, you will need to OCR them. There's tesseract.js for that.

Tesseract.js

YOu could try using tesseract.js to OCR the images. Though might be a challenge to figure out the times/days of the classes.

I've never used it - but Tesseract.js looks interesting. Perhaps you can use it as a foundation on which to build something like the AWS tool (which seems to work by overlaying an SVG over the top of the image, then manipulates that SVG when user clicks on a results tag to get the word/phrase's highlight box to display)?

I tried researching a little on this topic, so from what I understand to achieve this feature, I would need a library that supports Optical character Recognition (OCR) such as Tesseract.js or Google ML Kit to do it. However, I'm not too sure if these libraries will be supported on React Native apps.

It's definitely one of the best for on-the-fly OCR, but I think a server-based implementation using Google's Vision API would be way better. Definitely not mine, the AI used here is way beyond my skill level - link: https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/

I'm surprised that there is no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and goes through many typical situations and usecases. There are also several forks, most popular and advanced is `hledger` https://hledger.org/ (h is for Haskell), which provides some neat features out of the box, such as a simple web interface. All of them are very primitive compared to "professional" accounting software, but in return it offers great opportunities for hacking around while ensuring validity of your books.

I've been using hledger[1] - similar tool but has more features like balance sheet, income statement generation with a plain text file for the last 3 years and it's been working out great. Before that I used iBank (rebranded as Banktivity) and don't miss it at all.

[1] - https://hledger.org

I can offer this (warning, crufty real-world scripts ahead!): these [make](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) [files](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) and this [bash script](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/a3c300b/bake) have been replaced by this roughly equivalent [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Justfil...) (some old things were commented out, some new things were added).

I'm only a few weeks in, and just has its own learning curve, but I'm very pleased overall. Cognitive load is down, usability is up, robustness is up.

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/2047 . Thanks!

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