Hey everyone 👋

I'm Kyr — solo founder of pdftoexcel.

A friend asked me to "just convert these bank statements to Excel" for a divorce discovery packet. I tried three commercial tools plus ChatGPT.

Every one produced files that looked correct — until I ran a sum and the totals didn't match the ending balance printed on the statement. Silent sign errors. Dropped rows. Duplicated cents.

Plausible output, embarrassing in court.

The insight: every bank statement carries its own integrity check — the running balance. If the sum of transactions doesn't equal (ending − starting) within a penny, something went wrong in extraction.

That check is ~20 lines of Python. Direct-LLM converters don't do it because they couldn't pass it architecturally — they'd fail on most uploads.

So pdftoexcel does exactly that:

- Bank PDF (digital or scanned) → XLSX / CSV / QBO

- Every export reconciled against the running balance

- If the math doesn't close, you see "unverified" instead of a silently broken file

- 75+ US, UK, and Canada banks via pdfplumber fast-path; scans + trickier statements via Gemini Vision — same reconciliation check either way

- Free for 15 pages/month, no card required

Built for forensic accountants, divorce attorneys, bookkeepers, auditors — people who need to stand behind the numbers in front of someone who'll actually check them.

Would love feedback — especially:

- Ever been burned by a silent transcription error on a bank PDF? What broke?

- A bank we don't cover yet that you'd want supported?

Happy to answer anything. Thanks for taking a look 🙏