Personal blog of Stein Magnus Jodal Zola 2017-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://jodal.dev/tags/otovo/atom.xml 2017-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 2017-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jodal.dev/2017/05/21/netsgiro-released/

<p>Today I released the first stable release of <a rel="external" href="https://netsgiro.readthedocs.io/">netsgiro</a> to <a rel="external" href="https://pypi.org/project/netsgiro/">PyPI</a>. netsgiro is a Python 3.4+ library for parsing and building <a rel="external" href="https://www.nets.eu/">Nets</a> “OCR” files.</p> <p>AvtaleGiro is a direct debit solution that is in widespread use in Norway, with more than 15 000 companies offering it to their customers. OCR Giro is used by Nets and Norwegian banks to update payees on recent deposits to their bank accounts. In combination, AvtaleGiro and OCR Giro allows for a high level of automation of invoicing and payment processing.</p> <p>The “OCR” file format and file format name originates in days when giro payments were delivered on paper to your bank and then processed either manually or using optical character recognition, OCR. I’m not sure how old the format is, but some of the examples in the OCR Giro specification use dates in 1993, and the specification changelog starts in 1999 and ends in 2003. A couple of decades later, the file format is still in daily use by Nets’ AvtaleGiro and OCR Giro services. In other words, I have high hopes that this will be a very stable open source project requiring minimal maintenance efforts.</p>