Michael
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User reported "Daily Ledger Balances" entries leaking into output. Three correlated bugs in the row qualifier: **1. Empty description is now disqualifying.** A row like ``01/13/2025 $1,000.00`` has a date and an amount but no text between them — that's a daily-balance entry, a period-summary, or page furniture. Drop these. New filter sits after ``_description_from_row`` returns: if the description string is empty (or whitespace-only), continue past the row. **2. ``prev`` resets per page.** The state that drives multi- line description merging (the "previous transaction this continuation might attach to") used to persist across page boundaries. A no-date no-amount line at the top of page 2 could silently attach to the last transaction on page 1. Fixed by moving the ``prev`` / ``prev_y_bottom`` declarations into the outer page loop so each page starts clean. **3. Multi-line merges now check y-distance.** Before this fix, ANY no-date no-amount line attached to the previous transaction's description. A "Daily Ledger Balances" section header several rows below the last transaction would silently fold into it. Now the merge only happens when the gap ``current_top - prev_y_bottom <= 25.0`` PDF points — generous enough for one blank-line gap between wrapped descriptions, tight enough to reject section headers across paragraph breaks. The threshold is a module constant (``_MULTILINE_MERGE_MAX_GAP``) for future tuning if real statements call for it. Three new test classes: - ``TestRequiresDescription.test_empty_description_row_dropped`` — date+amount-no-text row filtered, real transaction kept. - ``TestPrevTransactionResetsPerPage.test_no_cross_page_merge`` — page-1 transaction + page-2 section header = no merge. - ``TestMultilineMergeYGap`` — close continuation merges (10-pt gap), far section header doesn't (100-pt gap). The original ``TestMultilineDescription.test_continuation_line_merges`` still passes — its setup has a 10-pt gap which is within the new threshold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DataTools
Local CSV / Excel cleaning. CLI + browser GUI, no cloud, no install ceremony. GUI ships with English and Spanish language packs.
Tools
| # | Tool | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Find Duplicates — exact + fuzzy match, 5 normalizers, survivor rules, audit | Ready |
| 02 | Clean Text — whitespace, smart chars, BOM, line endings, case ops | Ready |
| 03 | Standardize Formats — dates, phones, emails, addresses, names, currencies, booleans | Ready |
| 04 | Fix Missing Values — disguised-null detection, profile, mean/median/mode/ffill/bfill/interpolate, drop strategies | Ready |
| 05 | Map Columns — fuzzy auto-rename, target schema with type coercion, required fields with defaults, drop/reorder | Ready |
| 06 | Find Unusual Values | Coming Soon |
| 07 | Combine Files | Coming Soon |
| 08 | Quality Check | Coming Soon |
| 09 | Automated Workflows — chain tools with recommended (not forced) order, save/load JSON, automate weekly cleanups | Ready |
Download (non-technical users)
Pre-built installers — no Python required:
| Platform | Download | First-launch note |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | DataTools-X.Y.Z-mac.dmg |
Drag DataTools.app into /Applications, then double-click. |
| Windows | DataTools-X.Y.Z-win-setup.exe |
Run the installer; launches from Start Menu. |
| Linux | DataTools-X.Y.Z-linux-x86_64.AppImage |
chmod +x the file, then double-click. |
Latest release: see GitHub Releases (or the Gumroad listing). The installers are ~150–200 MB; the launcher boots a local server at http://127.0.0.1:8501 and opens your browser. Nothing is sent to the cloud.
Install from source (developers)
pip install -r requirements.txt
Python 3.10+ required.
Run
GUI (recommended):
streamlit run src/gui/app.py
CLI — seven entry points:
python -m src.cli customers.csv [--apply] # dedup
python -m src.cli_text_clean messy.csv [--apply] # text clean
python -m src.cli_format intl.csv [--apply] # format standardize (auto-streams >100 MB)
python -m src.cli_missing holes.csv [--apply] # missing values
python -m src.cli_column_map vendor.csv [--apply] # column mapper
python -m src.cli_pipeline any_file.csv [--apply] # chain tools end-to-end
python -m src.cli_analyze any_file.csv [--json] # scan only
Every CLI runs preview-only by default; add --apply to write output.
Language
The GUI sidebar has a language picker. Packs ship for English and Español (src/i18n/packs/); the choice persists for the session. Adding a language: drop a <code>.json next to en.json mirroring its key tree, then list it in LANGUAGES. See Developer Guide §i18n.
Review & Normalize gate
Every uploaded file passes through a CSV-normalization gate before any tool sees it. The analyzer flags ~15 issue types (whitespace, NBSP / zero-width chars, BOM, encoding, smart punct, dirty headers, null sentinels, mojibake, …) tagged by confidence (high / medium / low) and fix action. The GUI shows each finding with Auto-fix / Skip / Customize, a live before/after preview, and an encoding-override picker. Tool pages refuse to load until the gate passes.
Output
Every run writes:
{input}_<tool>.csv— the cleaned data{input}_changes.csv(text cleaner) or{input}_match_groups.csv(dedup) — audit traillogs/<tool>_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.log— debug-level run log
Original input file is never modified.
Docs
- User Guide — install, GUI workflow, gate
- CLI Reference — every flag with recipes
- Requirements — file sizes, encodings, detectors, perf targets
- Technical — architecture, gate internals, fix registry
- Developer Guide — adding fixes / detectors / standardizers
Dependencies
pandas, openpyxl, rapidfuzz, phonenumbers, typer, loguru, charset-normalizer, streamlit. Optional: ftfy for mojibake repair.
License
Proprietary.