u/bibstha1

Ustad Tari Khan.

I was mesmerized and in stitches at the same time, what a mahol wah.

Hey folks, I've been digging into this year's budget and realized the official PDFs from the Ministry of Finance are basically unusable for any kind of analysis. The Finance Bill is a 122 MB vector scan (every character drawn as outlines, no actual text), and the Budget Speech has corrupted font mappings so the text comes out garbled when you try to extract it.

Figured someone else might hit the same wall, so I spent some time reconstructing clean, machine-readable versions. Built a pipeline using Tesseract OCR to extract the text, then wrote some flow correction logic to rejoin text fragments across page breaks and rebuild the tariff tables back into actual tables.

What you get:

• Finance Bill 2083 in clean Nepali markdown (461 pages, mostly tariff schedules)
• Budget Speech FY 2083/84 in clean Nepali markdown (93 pages of actual prose)
• English translations (working through those now)
• Python tools if you want to run the same process on other PDFs

The Nepali reconstructions are pretty solid. The English is machine-assisted so the meaning is there but I wouldn't quote it for anything legally binding. And yeah, it's OCR-derived so there'll be the odd character glitch or spacing artifact, especially in the heavy number tables. Always cross-check important figures against the original.

The whole thing is in the repo here: https://github.com/bibstha/nepal-budget-2083-2084

If you're a journalist trying to dig into tax stuff, a developer wanting to build budget analysis tools, or just someone curious about what's actually in the documents, the markdown should be way easier to work with than trying to extract from those PDFs.

Open to issues or PRs if folks find problems or want to help with the English translations.