OCR bank statements to Excel, and see every misread.
When you OCR bank statements to Excel, the risk is not a blank cell. It is a plausible number with one digit wrong. Here the running balance is re-added after every row, so a misread breaks the arithmetic and is flagged on that row for you to check against the scan.
no account: 3 files, up to 50 pages each, 60 pages in all · free account: 5 files, 100 pages in all · paid plans: billed by the page, files up to 500 pages · files shredded after conversion
Bookkeepers
A client photographs a paper statement or sends a fax. You still need a ledger you can reconcile.
Accountants catching up old books
Years of paper statements, scanned in a batch, need to become rows without hand-typing every line.
Small firms with mixed inputs
Some clients send bank PDFs, some send scans. One process, one check, either way.
What this actually fixes
OCR output looks confident when it is wrong
A 6 read as an 8, or a dropped decimal point, produces a clean-looking table that reconciles to nothing.
Skew, shadows and fax noise are normal
Crooked phone photos and low-resolution scans are the usual input for a client file, not the exception.
Most tools hide the uncertainty
On a scan, the cells the reader was unsure about are the ones you most need to see.
What comes out
One upload, one set of compute-ready outputs — not a screenshot of a table.
A misread shows up as a break
Each row is tested against opening balance plus deposits minus withdrawals equals closing balance. If the chain breaks, the row is flagged with the exact difference.
Disagreements shown, not averaged
When a second reading of a cell disagrees with the first, that cell is highlighted and listed with a link to the source page.
The scan behind every value
Click a figure to see the region of the scan it was read from, and compare it with your own eyes.
Clean Excel either way
One row per transaction, no merged cells, amounts as numbers, whether the source was a PDF or a photo.
Same check as a native PDF
The balance proof does not change because the source is an image. The number of flags does.
Values stay as read
Nothing is rounded or corrected for you. A suspicious digit is marked, and whether to change it is your decision.
Documents we read
Native PDF, scan, phone photo, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, HTML, email or image.
How it works
Upload the scan or photo
A free account converts 100 pages in all, across up to 5 files.
Read, compare, then add up
The page layout is rebuilt, a second reading is compared cell by cell, and the running balance is re-added from the opening balance.
Check the flags, then export
Each flagged cell is listed with its page. Fix or confirm it, then export to Excel, CSV or QBO.
Every plan, every audience
- Billed by the page, files up to 500 pages on a paid plan
- No merged cells; numbers arrive as numbers
- Every extracted value traces back to its source page
- Files shredded after conversion, never used for training
- A fresh file allowance every billing cycle; cancel anytime
- An optional hash-bound certificate anyone can verify for free
Questions
How do I OCR bank statements to Excel? +
Upload the scanned PDF or photo, then check the rows that are flagged against the scan shown next to them. When the flags are cleared or confirmed, download the .xlsx. Each transaction is one row.
Can I convert an OCR bank statement to Excel? +
Yes. If you already have a bank statement that has been through OCR, or you are starting from a scan, upload it and the same check runs: the running balance is re-added row by row and anything that does not tie out is flagged. Then download the .xlsx or the QBO file.
How do I know the OCR did not misread a number? +
The running balance is re-added after every row. A misread digit usually stops the balance from tying out, and the row is flagged with the difference. A misread that happens to keep the arithmetic intact can still pass, which is why disputed cells are also marked separately.
Does it work on a phone photo of a statement? +
Yes. Expect more flagged cells than from the bank's own PDF, because the source is harder to read. The flags are the useful part.
Is there a free way to try it? +
A free account converts 100 pages in all, across up to 5 files. Monthly plans start at $19 for 1,000 pages a month and can be cancelled anytime.
Do you keep the scans? +
Files are deleted after conversion and are not used for training. Paid accounts keep their own report history and can delete entries from it.
What if the statement is a normal PDF, not a scan? +
The same check applies. See how to convert a bank statement to Excel from a PDF.
Run your next file
Upload the document, get compute-ready output with the source page behind every number. A free account converts 5 files, 100 pages in all.