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The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

Posted Jan 14, 2009 17:06 UTC (Wed) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545)
In reply to: The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update by mcopple
Parent article: The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

There is a discussion at the Open Tax Solver (OTS) forum on these issues:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1217472&...

With automatic PDF tag extraction and PDF form filling combined with the OTS logic, I think the tools are in place now to attack the tax form problem.

Cry


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The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

Posted Jan 14, 2009 21:45 UTC (Wed) by adamgundy (subscriber, #5418) [Link]

the sourceforge thread eventually leads to this: http://www.myown1.com/linux/pdf_formfill.shtml which is a nice description of how to use pdftk to fill in the fields on a 1040.

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