Field notes from turning PDFs into data.
Tutorials, product updates, and the occasional engineering deep dive — written by the team building Bank Statement Converter.
How to Download Your Bank of America Statement (Simple Guide)
Step-by-step instructions for downloading Bank of America statements as PDF — online, via mobile app, or by mail — plus how to convert them to Excel or CSV.
Read the postHow to convert a PDF bank statement to Excel in 30 seconds
A walkthrough of the fastest path from a downloaded statement to a tidy spreadsheet — including the keyboard shortcuts we use daily.
Why OCR accuracy matters in reconciliation
A single mis-read decimal can break a month-end close. We dig into what causes OCR drift and how we measure it.
A primer on bank statement formats: MT940, BAI2, and CSV
Why your bank ships statements in a different format than your accounting tool expects — and a field guide to the most common ones.
Securing PDFs at rest and in transit
An honest look at our encryption choices, key rotation policy, and how we handle password-protected uploads.
The 10 most-converted banks in 2026 (so far)
A look at our usage data: which institutions our customers send the most, and what their statement layouts have in common.
Building a reconciliation pipeline with our API
A reference architecture for piping PDFs through OCR, normalization, and an accounting system — with retries, idempotency keys, and webhook handlers.
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