What Parserje does, and what it leaves to you
Most tools that turn a PDF into a spreadsheet will hand you rows and let you hope. Parserje was built for a desk where hoping is not good enough: an accounts clerk keying months of bank statements into accounting software, where one missing line turns up a year later during an audit.
So it does six things.
It reads both kinds of PDF
A statement downloaded from online banking has a text layer, so the figures can be read straight off the file. A scanned or printed statement has none, so the page has to be read as an image instead. You do not have to know which one you have. Parserje works it out and tells you.
It handles a file holding several statements
Plenty of people keep a whole year merged into one PDF. Parserje splits it by statement and reads each month on its own, even when the months sit out of order or were saved in different formats along the way.
It checks its own work
This is the part that matters. Every row is matched against the running balance, and each statement is matched against the totals printed on its own pages. The result is labelled, so you are told whether the month ties out rather than left to assume it.
It flags what it is unsure of
A row it could not read cleanly is marked instead of quietly guessed at. On a scanned statement a faint decimal point is the usual culprit. Your eye goes to the few rows that need a look, not to all two hundred.
It gives you Excel
One .xlsx file, date and description and debit and credit and balance in their own columns. Nothing proprietary, nothing to open it with except the spreadsheet you already use.
It runs in your browser
The page opens the PDF itself. Nothing is sent to a server during the conversion, and you can check that yourself: convert once so the page has everything it needs, switch on airplane mode, then convert your real statement.
What it does not do
Parserje is not accounting software and is not trying to replace yours. It does not post entries, keep a ledger, or do your bank reconciliation. It prepares the statement so the software you already use gets clean data, which is why it sits happily beside AutoCount, Bukku and Excel.
It also will not combine two accounts into one conversion. That is deliberate: the checks above only mean something within a single account.
It is free while it is in beta. Maybank, CIMB, Bank Islam and BSN are the most tested banks, and the fastest way to get yours working is to tell us when it does not. Ready to try it? Convert a statement in five steps.
Questions people ask
Is Parserje free?
It is free while it is in beta. No account, no card.
Is my bank statement uploaded to a server?
No. The page opens the PDF itself and nothing is sent to a server during the conversion. Convert once so the page has everything it needs, switch on airplane mode, then convert your real statement.
Can Parserje combine two accounts into one file?
No, and that is deliberate. The checks only mean something within a single account, so each account is converted on its own.
Convert your bank statement to Excel
Drop in your PDFs. Parserje reads them, checks the figures against the statement, and tells you what it found.