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Spectra: automate personal finance from bank CSV/PDF exports (Python)
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Spectra: automate personal finance from bank CSV/PDF exports (Python)

via Dev.to PythonFrancesco Gabrieli1mo ago

Every month I was doing the same manual work: export bank statements, clean messy CSV/PDF formats, decode ugly descriptions, categorize transactions, then update spreadsheets by hand. So I built Spectra. Spectra is a file-based Python pipeline that ingests bank exports (CSV/PDF), normalizes them, optionally categorizes transactions with an LLM (OpenAI/Gemini), detects recurring payments, converts historical FX rates, and updates a Google Sheets dashboard automatically. Core parsing/normalization/dedup runs locally; categorization can be cloud-based depending on configuration. If you’ve dealt with bank exports before, I’d love feedback on the worst edge cases you’ve seen and what you’d prioritize next. Repo: https://github.com/francescogabrieli/Spectra

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