Statements downloaded from online banking carry a text layer, which is what the detection reads, so they convert well; the ruled or neatly aligned tables banks favor are the easy case. A statement you scanned or photographed has no text layer and needs OCR first — and because OCR can misread a 3 as an 8, check the recognized totals against the printed ones. Currency and percentage strings are deliberately kept as text so nothing is silently altered; free-form notes land in a single column. The workbook opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice Calc, and is assembled entirely in your browser.
How it works
- Drop the statement and open PDF → Excel
- Bindery detects rows and columns from the text layer, one sheet per page
- Download the .xlsx; run OCR first if the statement is a scan
Questions people ask
Will the amounts be real numbers I can total?
Yes, when they are plain numbers: 1,234.56 becomes a numeric cell with or without the thousands separator. Values written with a currency symbol or a percent sign stay text so that no figure is changed behind your back — strip the symbol in the spreadsheet if you want to sum them.
My statement is a scan or a photo — will it work?
Not directly, because a scan has no text layer to read. Run Bindery’s OCR tool first (eleven languages, on your device) to add one, then convert the searchable result. Verify the totals afterwards: recognized digits can be wrong, and a spreadsheet will happily sum a misread number.
Is any part of the statement sent to Bindery?
No. The PDF is opened, analyzed and rewritten as .xlsx inside your browser; there is no upload endpoint for documents. You can open the browser’s network panel during the job and see for yourself that no request carries the file.