[Kmymoney-devel] XML Import Request

[Allan]

On 27/06/14 14:18, Jennifer Wensel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just now installing KMyMoney, and see that I won't be able to import
> from my bank, which only exports statements using XML and PDF. I'm a
> busy mom, not a programmer, so I certainly can't write this plugin
> myself. Any chance someone else could do it? My bank is KiwiBank, the
> national bank of New Zealand, so this would be useful to other Kiwi's
> over here on this side of the world.
>
> In the meantime, do you know of any way to easily convert either of
> those files to something that would import? I use Foxit Phantom PDF
> which should do image recognition, do you know how well it would put the
> PDF into something that could become CSV? My credit card statements (the
> most important ones for me, are only offered in PDFs, not XMLs).
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer

Have a look at, for instance, 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/converter-pdf-files-to-text-format-command/

It's information about a utility pdftotext.

pdftotext pdffilename outputfilename (options) may help you.

Allan