I got fired so I built a bank statement converter
I recently got fired and decided to channel my energy into something productive. Over two weeks, I spent 16-hour days building a tool that converts Australian bank PDFs into clean, reliable CSVs, tailored specifically for Aussie banks. Most Aussie banks only provide statements as a PDF, and generic converters often fail: columns drift, multi-line descriptions break parsing, headers shift. Existing tools don’t handle it well and I wanted a tool that just works. To get started, I used my own bank statements to build the initial parsers. There was a "duh" moment when I realised how hard it is…
I got fired so I built a bank statement converter launched on November 4, 2025 with 16 votes, #696 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This tool converts Australian bank statement PDFs into clean CSV files. It addresses the common problem that generic converters struggle with Australian bank formats, where columns drift, multi-line descriptions break parsing, and headers shift. Built by someone who spent two weeks developing parsers using their own bank statements, the tool prioritizes trust and privacy by processing data securely. It's designed for Australian individuals and businesses who need reliable statement conversion without generic tools failing on their specific bank formats.
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From the sources
Turn messy Australian bank PDFs into clean, ready-to-use CSVs in seconds. Made for accountants, founders, and finance pros.
Convert a PDF statement from any major Australian bank to a clean, categorised CSV. The file is read in memory, converted, and dropped, never written to disk and never seen by an AI model.
Drop in a PDF from an Australian bank and get a clean spreadsheet back. The file is read in memory, converted, and dropped. It never touches a disk and no AI model ever sees it. Self-lodgers have until 31 October. If that's you and the statements you need are older than your bank's online history, span several years, or sit in an account that's since closed, a PDF from the bank is usually still the only way to get them. Upload up to ten at once and get every transaction back in one merged CSV, in date order, ready for your return or your accountant. See the full guide to lodging with multiple years of statements . Anything the converter can't match is left uncategorised. Set it yourself in…from aussiebankstatements.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I recently got fired and decided to channel my energy into something productive. Over two weeks, I spent 16-hour days building a tool that converts Australian bank PDFs into clean, reliable CSVs, tailored specifically for Aussie banks. Most Aussie banks only provide statements as a PDF, and generic converters often…
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