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A bank statement PDF is a print layout, not data. Converting it means extracting the transactions as rows — date, description, amount, balance — and writing them in a format your software can use. This guide covers the whole process, for any bank.
For a handful of transactions, typing works. Beyond a page or two it becomes slow and error-prone, and there is no built-in check — a converter with reconciliation is faster and proves its own totals.
Use a converter with OCR (optical character recognition). OCR results should always be reconciled against the statement's balances and flagged rows reviewed, because OCR can misread digits.
Where the statement prints opening and closing (or running) balances, the converter adds up the extracted transactions and compares the result with the statement itself. If the numbers do not tie, the conversion is flagged and the mismatched rows are marked — a failed check is never shown as a success.
No. Uploaded files and generated exports are stored only briefly to complete the download and are automatically deleted within 15 minutes.
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Your first conversion is free — no card, no sign-up — and every result is reconciled against the statement itself before you download it.