Question 1

What does the Bank Statement Converter do?

Accepted Answer

It reads a PDF bank statement and converts its transaction table into a clean .xlsx or .csv file with Date, Description, Debit/Credit, and Balance columns, so you can work with your transactions in a spreadsheet.

Question 2

Is it safe to use this on my actual bank statement given how sensitive that data is?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the entire conversion happens locally in your browser using your device's own processing, so your statement and transaction data are never uploaded, transmitted, or stored on any server.

Question 3

How does it know which column is which?

Accepted Answer

It looks at the header row and text positions on the page to auto-detect columns like Date, Description, Debit, Credit, Amount, and Balance; if it can't confidently identify those columns, it falls back to exporting the raw extracted grid as-is so you still get the data, just without the standardized column labels.

Question 4

Why did my export come out as a raw grid instead of neat Date/Description/Balance columns?

Accepted Answer

This happens when the statement's layout is unusual enough that the tool can't confidently match columns to Date, Description, Debit/Credit, or Balance, typically because of nonstandard headers, merged cells, or an inconsistent table structure, in which case it exports the underlying data untouched rather than guessing.

Question 5

Does it work on scanned statements, and is it free?

Accepted Answer

It's free to use with no account required, but it only works on PDFs with selectable text, not scanned or photographed statements, since there's no OCR to read text out of an image.

Frequently asked questions about Bank Statement Converter

What does the Bank Statement Converter do?

Is it safe to use this on my actual bank statement given how sensitive that data is?

How does it know which column is which?

Why did my export come out as a raw grid instead of neat Date/Description/Balance columns?

Does it work on scanned statements, and is it free?