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Why Convert Bank Statements to Excel

In the current era where almost all business transactions are digitized, it is important to convert bank statements to Excel, csv or other structured file formats. Such digitization is vital for producing reports, presentations, archiving of records, and making data in these documents machine-readable.

Most bank transactions are now online, and this includes the issuance and receipts of bank statements by banking customers.  From passbook entries and printouts of monthly statements, we have moved to online statements that are sent to the recipient’s email inbox or downloadable from bank websites after appropriate verifications.

Emailed or downloaded bank statements are often in the form of password-protected PDF documents.  These documents serve best as a repository of transactions; extracting or editing the data is extremely cumbersome. Organizations often look to convert such documents to editable formats like Excel, csv etc. for downstream integration into ERP software.

Converting a PDF bank statement to Excel or csv can be complicated and time-consuming. This is to be expected because bank statements are designed to be tamper-proof. A simple copy-paste from PDF documents will not work. This process gets more hectic when dealing with printed bank statements; as they will additionally need to be scanned!

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, like Nanonets, can convert images, PDFs and other non-editable files into structured editable formats (Excel, csv etc.). Various OCR software are available today with varying levels of sophistication. The simplest OCR tools simply extract the data/text with no attention to the original presentation/order of data. Advanced AI-based OCR software like Nanonets can recognize text, data, tables, graphs and such other elements in documents and only extract relevant data.

Nanonets’ PDF scraper OCR is particularly useful for converting bank statements into machine-readable structured data formats such as excel files (cvs, XML, JSON etc.). Such structured data can be conveniently  included and processed in automated workflows. Automated processing & management of bank statements can streamline a company’s financial operations and avoid delays or errors.

Want to extract text from PDF documents or convert PDF table to Excel? Check out Nanonets PDF scraper or PDF parser to scrape PDF data or parse PDFs at scale!

How to Convert Bank Statements to Excel with Nanonets

Converting PDF bank statements to Excel or CSV is pretty straightforward with Nanonets. Nanonets offers 2 methods to convert PDF documents to Excel:

1. Custom Nanonets OCR Model
2. Nanonets API

Custom Nanonets OCR Model

If your use case isn’t covered by any of Nanonets’ pre-trained OCR models, build a custom OCR model that suits your specific data extraction requirements. Build, train & deploy a custom OCR  for any document type across a range of languages in just under 25 minutes.  

Here are the detailed steps to create a custom OCR model to convert bank statements from PDF to Excel:

• Login to Nanonets & select “Create Your Own” to build a custom OCR model
• Upload sample PDF bank statements to serve as a training set for Nanonets’ algorithms
• Annotate the PDF bank statements to train Nanonets’ algorithms to identify the important/relevant transactions  in the sample bank statements
• Build the custom OCR model – Nanonets leverages deep learning to build various OCR models and tests them against each other to pick the most accurate one
• Test & verify – Add a couple of real bank statements to check whether the custom OCR model works well
• Export – If the transactions/data have been recognized, extracted and presented correctly, then export the file – download the data extracted from the PDF statements as an Excel, csv, JSON or XML output

Here’s a quick demo on how to build a custom OCR model with Nanonets. Although this example focuses on passports as the document of interest, the steps apply to bank statements as well:

Nanonets API

If you’re looking to train/build your own application to convert PDF bank statements to Excel, check out the Nanonets API. The Nanonets API documentation provides readymade code samples in Shell, Ruby, Golang, Java, C# and Python, as well as detailed API specs for different endpoints.

Details of the process may be obtained here.

Need a free online OCR for image to text, PDF to table, PDF to text, or PDF data extraction? Check out Nanonets’ online OCR API in action and start building custom OCR models for free!

Benefits of Converting Bank Statements with Nanonets

Nanonets is ideally placed to convert PDF bank statements into Excel sheets. Its AI-based OCR can convert scanned/PDF statements into structured formats like Excel, XML, csv, JSON, and more.

This helps transform human-readable PDF statements into structured machine-readable digital data.  

Here are some  specific advantages of using Nanonets to convert bank statements to csv or Excel:

• Flexibility: Nanonets’ deep learning algorithms can easily handle handwritten text, multiple languages, images with low resolution, images with new or cursive fonts and varying sizes, images with shadowy text, tilted text, random unstructured text, image noise, blurred images and many more common data constraints.
• Customizability: The use of proprietary/custom data to train Nanonets’ OCR models helps meet specific business requirements. Bank statement formats differ based on the bank and the type of account.
  • The ability to train OCR models to recognize various formats is ideal for organizations with different kinds of accounts in multiple banks.
• Adaptability to changes: The possibility to easily re-train existing models with new data allows Nanonets’ OCR models to adapt to unforeseen changes.
  • Changing bank document formats or new data capture requirements can thus be easily handled.
• Detection of tables: Automatic detection of tables including structured row-column information is particularly useful for bank statement digitization.
  • Nanonets offers the facility to export tables to multiple formats like CSV, Excel, & JSON.
• No post-processing needed: the extraction of relevant data and their automatic sorting into intelligently structured fields minimizes manual post-processing.
• Works with non-English or multiple languages. This feature is important for multinational operators who work across national borders.
• Ease of use, batch processing of multiple documents and seamless 2-way integration with multiple accounting software.

Nanonets online OCR & OCR API have many interesting use cases that could optimize your business performance, save costs and boost growth. Find out how Nanonets’ use cases can apply to your product.