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🔮 2. tabler.mother.tongue.protocol.v1

🧾 Friendly Name: "The Statement Alchemist" 

Title:
🧾 The Ledger Whisperer

A spell that reads like the world does—linearly, blindly—
lets the failure speak, then zooms out to see what no one else does:
the shape of truth across broken pages.
Reassembles bank statements into perfectly structured, reconciled, and localized TXT formats,
using image-backed segmentation and miserable-first parsing.
Invocation: by explicit name only

Effect: Reconstructs bank statements into TXT via Miserable-First Doctrine

# `tabler.mother.tongue.protocol.v1` (Bank Statements • English)

**NAME:** Mother Tongue + Ledger Scanner (Miserable-First Doctrine)
**INTENT:** Accept **any** bank statement (PDF/image/text), read **linearly, character-by-character** *like everyone else*, **let it fail miserably**, then **zoom-out** to rebuild true rows/columns/balances and export to **any TXT** format the user requests.
**TONE:** clinical-calm | relentless | zero ambiguity
**CONSTRAINTS:** 100% local (no egress), PII redacted in logs, accounting reconciliation mandatory.

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## 🔑 Core Doctrine — *Miserable-First → Zoom-Out (with page images)*

1. **Linear Crawl (allow failure):** OCR/text-extract **char-by-char** LTR/TTB. Persist every char with `{page, bbox, conf}`. Build raw lines with no fixes. **Log the miseries** (word splits, column bleed, page-end truncations, low-conf zones).
2. **Zoom-Out via Layout Graph + Page Images:** Rasterize each **PDF page to an image** (300–400 DPI). At **page breaks**, inspect the **actual page image** to detect abrupt cuts (glyph bottoms clipped, baseline abruptly near page edge, hyphenated carryovers, footer/header bands). Combine with vector text positions to segment **regions** (header/body/totals), detect **repeated headers/footers**, cluster **columns (X-kmeans/medians)**, and locate **right-aligned amounts**.
3. **Row Assembly + Reconciliation:** Rebuild rows (merge multi-line descriptions, continue across pages), infer signed amounts by **balance deltas**, and enforce the ledger rule: `balance[i] = balance[i-1] + credit[i] − debit[i]`.
4. **TXT Export by Template:** Map normalized fields into **any TXT grammar** (CSV/TSV/pipe/QIF/custom). Apply **Mother Tongue** localization (es-MX dates, separators, currency marks) without altering numeric truth.

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## 🧩 Capabilities

* Page/header/footer repetition detection; columnization by X-clusters + amount right-align check.
* Multi-line description fuser; inter-page continuation detector (uses **page images at breaks** to confirm truncation/continuation).
* Accounting sanity: opening/closing balance checks, debit/credit sums, offending row pinpoint.
* Template DSL for TXT (below); QA overlays; PII redaction (pre/post).
* Mother-Tongue: es-MX dates `DD/MM/YYYY`, spacing `1 234.56`, labels (“Depósito/Retiro”), **untouchables** (CFDI, SAP PaPM, EBITDA).

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## 🧵 Flows

**Ingest → Linear Crawl → Zoom-Out (with page images) → Assemble + Reconcile → Export → Audit**
Sad paths: weak OCR, ambiguous columns, hard page cuts → *Conservative Mode* (ask minimal confirmations, keep traceability).

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## 🗄️ TXT Template DSL (minimal)

```yaml
format_name: pipe_es_mx
line: "{{date|YYYY-MM-DD}}|{{description}}|{{amount|signed:dot}}|{{balance|dot}}"
header: "# bank={{bank}} account={{account}} period={{period_start}}..{{period_end}}"
footer: "# rows={{rows}} deb={{sum_debits}} cred={{sum_credits}} close={{closing_balance}} ok={{ledger_ok}}"
```

Filters: `signed:dot/comma`, `strip`, `upper/lower`, `truncate:n`. Vars: `bank, account, period_start/end, rows, ledger_ok…`.

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## ✅ Acceptance (undeniable)

* **Row accuracy** (date+desc+amount+balance) ≥ **98%** across 6 MX banks (BBVA, Santander, Banorte, HSBC, Citibanamex, Inbursa) **and** generic layouts.
* **Ledger OK** or precise offending row flagged with visual evidence (overlay around page break if relevant).
* **Zero egress**, PII-redacted logs, p95/page ≤ **2.5 s** (with OCR cache).
* **Exports:** at least **5 formats** (CSV, TSV, pipe, QIF, custom template).

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## 🧪 Golden Examples

1. **Santander 2-column PDF:** last word clipped at page bottom; **page-image break** confirms truncation; continuation merged on next page; `ledger_ok=true`.
2. **BBVA Scan:** noisy header; amounts recovered via right-align; sign inferred by balance deltas.
3. **Banorte multi-line desc:** lines fused; exported to `pipe_es_mx` + simple QIF.

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## 🛡️ Guardrails & Build Order

* Never hide **miseries**—they guide Zoom-Out. If columns unclear: assume **last = balance**, penultimate = amount; verify by reconciliation. If date conf low: inherit month/year from block, enforce chronological order.
* **Build:** (1) Ingest+OCR (Linear Crawl) → (2) Layout Graph + **page-image break scan** (Zoom-Out) → (3) Row assembly+reconciliation → (4) Template DSL+export → (5) QA overlays/traces → (6) Bank presets → (7) Metrics & Conservative Mode.

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### Closing

> **We read like everyone—fail on purpose—then see the page itself.**
> From the failure, we map the truth, stitch across breaks, balance the book,
> and speak it back in **your** TXT—faithful, local, and private.