The PDF parsers shell out to pdftotext, so every machine running money needed
poppler-utils installed. scripts/build-bundled.sh now builds a deployable
binary that carries its own: pdftotext is compiled in a container from a
checksum-pinned poppler release as a fully static musl executable, then
embedded with `go build -tags bundled`. The result is one file that runs on
any Linux of that architecture with nothing installed alongside it.
It is still the real pdftotext, run as a subprocess. Linking poppler through
cgo would have cost the pure-Go build, and its C++ text API is not guaranteed
to space columns the way pdftotext -layout does, which is what the parsers
were tuned on. Only what text extraction needs is compiled in -- no
fontconfig, cairo or image codecs -- and its output is byte-identical to a
full distro build on the same PDF.
At runtime the embedded copy is written to the user cache directory, not
/tmp, which servers often mount noexec. It is named by content hash, so a
newer build never runs an older copy, and verified before reuse, so a write cut
short by a killed process is replaced rather than trusted. `money config` says
which pdftotext is in use.
The tag is opt-in: plain go build and go test never need the 5 MB executable,
which is gitignored rather than committed. Building with the tag for anything
but linux/amd64 or linux/arm64 fails with a message saying so.
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A data directory holds one folder per account. Statements dropped into
those folders are parsed into a rebuildable SQLite index, categorised by
ordered glob rules in rules.toml, and browsed or hand-tagged in a Bubble
Tea TUI. Movements between the user's own accounts are marked as
transfers by the same rules and excluded from spending totals.
Manual tags and transfer marks are stored separately from the rule-derived
ones and always win, so editing rules.toml and re-running retag never
destroys hand edits.
Parsers are pluggable. Three are ported from the Python extractors they
replace -- nlb and traderepublic read PDFs via pdftotext -layout, revolut
reads the CSV export -- alongside a configurable-column CSV parser and a
cmd parser that shells out to an external script.
Both ports fix two latent bugs in the originals: the sign character class
rejected the typographic minus U+2212 that some PDF fonts emit, and NLB's
hardcoded continuation indent broke when pdftotext compressed runs of
spaces, so the threshold is now measured from the description column.
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