Guides
Practical, checkable guides — not just this tool's documentation. Every claim in here is something you can verify yourself, on any converter, not just this one.
Trust and verification
Is it safe to upload your bank statement to a converter?
What uploading actually means, what a privacy policy does and doesn't protect, and how to check any converter's real behavior yourself.
How to verify a converted bank statement is actually correct
A tool-agnostic way to check any converted statement against the numbers already printed on it — no accuracy percentage required.
A bank statement converter that works offline
Why this converter keeps working with no internet connection, and how to test that claim yourself.
What the reconciliation checks actually catch (no invented accuracy number)
Why this page isn't a fabricated statistic, and what's actually verified today.
Formats and exporting
CSV vs Excel vs QBO vs QIF: which do you need?
A plain decision guide to the four export formats — what each is and which software reads it.
How to import a bank statement into Excel
The formatting traps that make a plain CSV import painful, and how to avoid them.
How to import a bank statement into Google Sheets
Locale and date-format traps specific to Sheets' CSV import.
Accounting software
QuickBooks balance doesn't match your statement? Here's why
The common causes — duplicate imports, date gaps, sign mismatches, missing rows — and how to catch them before import.
How to import a bank statement into Xero
Manual statement import via CSV or QIF, and avoiding duplicates against an existing bank feed.
Catching up a year of old statements for bookkeeping
A workflow for converting and reconciling a backlog of statements, where verification matters more than usual.
How the parser works
What's actually inside a bank statement PDF
Text layer vs. image, and why column detection is geometric rather than template-based.
Bank statement OCR errors: where they come from
The classic character-confusion pairs that cause OCR-based converters to misread amounts.
Which banks print a running balance on statements?
Whether a per-row balance exists determines which reconciliation checks can run.
Converting a password-protected bank statement PDF
How encrypted statements are handled, and why the password never has to leave your browser.