Import from UAchieve

[bryanbab]

Pull Request

Allows users of graduate to upload courses they've taken with a pdf exported from UAchieve

Closes #306

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Manually updated PDFs to verify courses parse correctly

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Pull request overview

Adds an “Import from UAchieve” flow to the graduate plan creation UI by introducing a new API endpoint that parses an uploaded PDF and returns detected course codes.

Changes:

• Add pdf-parse (+ typings) dependency to enable server-side PDF text extraction.
• Add server-side PDF parsing utilities in auditPlans controller and a new /api/audit/utils/parse-pdf route.
• Add an upload button to NewPlanModal that posts a PDF to the new API and displays the number of parsed courses.

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File	Description
pnpm-lock.yaml	Locks new pdf-parse and @types/pdf-parse dependencies.
apps/searchneu/package.json	Adds pdf-parse and typings to the app’s deps.
apps/searchneu/lib/controllers/auditPlans.ts	Adds PDF-to-text parsing and regex-based course extraction.
apps/searchneu/components/graduate/modal/NewPlanModal.tsx	Adds client-side PDF upload UI and fetch to parse endpoint.
apps/searchneu/app/api/audit/utils/parse-pdf/route.ts	New API route to accept multipart upload, verify user, parse PDF, return courses.

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[denniwang]

Expanding scope of ticket a little bit, can we make another PR for this branch that adds a transfer courses section? this will let us actually make use of the parsed courses, right now we're not sure where to put the courses in the list, and for scheduled courses we want to know what year and term to put them in.

[denniwang]

Expanding scope of ticket a little bit, can we make another PR for this branch that adds a transfer courses section? this will let us actually make use of the parsed courses, right now we're not sure where to put the courses in the list, and for scheduled courses we want to know what year and term to put them in.

@23langloisj make pr into this branch or make different ticket?

[bryanbab]

Expanding scope of ticket a little bit, can we make another PR for this branch that adds a transfer courses section? this will let us actually make use of the parsed courses, right now we're not sure where to put the courses in the list, and for scheduled courses we want to know what year and term to put them in.