Scanned statement OCR

Turn scanned bank statements into rows you can open in Excel.

For image-heavy PDFs, AI Converter can use OCR fallback when configured. The result is a CSV that opens in Excel, not a guaranteed native Excel workbook.

Low-confidence scans should fail closed instead of inventing rows.

What you get

Excel-readable CSV.

The export is CSV rows you can open with Excel or another spreadsheet tool. Review the rows, amounts, and balances before using the file.

OCR fallback

Useful for scans, not magic.

OCR can help with scanned or photo-based PDFs, but blurry pages, shadows, cut-off columns, and handwriting can still fail or require cleanup.

Workflow

Preview the scan result first.

Upload the scanned PDF.
Check whether the preview rows match the statement.
Unlock the full CSV only when the preview is useful.
Open the CSV in Excel and review before important use.

Limits

Quality matters.

Clean scans with visible columns work best. Password-protected, corrupted, very low-resolution, or unusual files may fail.

Use the preview as your quality gate.

AI Converter is built around a simple rule: inspect the sample before trusting the full export. That matters for bank statements, receipts, invoices, screenshots, and other sensitive files because automated extraction can be wrong when a scan is noisy, a table is unusual, a file is damaged, or a provider cannot safely read the source. The preview gives you an early look at columns, dates, descriptions, totals, signs, and row structure before you pay for the complete result.

For accounting workflows, compare the export with the source statement before importing it into bookkeeping, tax, lending, or compliance systems. Keep the privacy pages close too: source files are handled for the job you start, generated files have a short download window, and support requests should use job IDs rather than pasted bank, receipt, invoice, screenshot, or document contents.

A clean export is only useful when the route matches the file. Choose the most specific output available, keep the original file until you have checked the result, and use the validation notes or row preview to spot missing dates, duplicate transactions, weak OCR, wrong signs, or totals that do not reconcile. If the preview looks off, stop there instead of paying for a full export.