Scanned PDFs and photos → real tables
A scan has no text layer — there is nothing to copy, and selecting the table gives you nothing. This reads the page the way a person does, so a skewed scan or a phone photo still comes back as a spreadsheet you can sum.
- An Excel file where the amounts are numbers you can sum — not text that looks like numbers.
- A category on every row, and foreign spend converted at the rate on the day you spent it.
- Or the file your software wants: OFX, a Xero or QuickBooks CSV, UBL XML for an ERP.
The PDF your bank sends
NORTHBANK PLC
Statement · 01–31 March 2026 · GBP
03/03/26SALARY - ACME LTD4,250.00
04/03/26RENT - MARCH1,200.00
05/03/26TESCO STORES 447187.35
07/03/26SHELL FUEL LONDON62.10
11/03/26AWS EMEA214.88
22/03/26VODAFONE LTD42.00
The Excel you get back
| Date | Description | Category | GBP | EUR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-03 | SALARY - ACME LTD | Salary | +4,250.00 | 4,875.60 |
| 2026-03-04 | RENT - MARCH | Rent | −1,200.00 | 1,378.56 |
| 2026-03-05 | TESCO STORES 4471 | Groceries | −87.35 | 100.46 |
| 2026-03-07 | SHELL FUEL LONDON | Fuel | −62.10 | 71.63 |
| 2026-03-11 | AWS EMEA | Software | −214.88 | 248.81 |
| 2026-03-22 | VODAFONE LTD | Telecoms | −42.00 | 48.59 |
Category filled in for you. EUR converted at the rate on each transaction's own date — not today's.
Drop a scanned PDF or a photo of a table
PDF · photo · iPhone HEIC · scan · zip · Word — mix them freely, no sign-up to try
Free to try, no sign-up. Pay $9 for a batch, or sign in for 10 free pages.
How it works
- 1
Drop the scan
A flatbed scan, a phone photo, a fax that became a PDF in 2009. All fine.
- 2
It reads the layout
Columns stay columns. A number in the debit column does not wander into credit.
- 3
Take the table
Excel, CSV or XML — with the amounts as numbers, not as text that looks like numbers.
No text layer needed
Traditional extractors look for text hiding under the image. When there is none — a scan, a photo — they return an empty table. This one looks at the page.
Crooked, creased, badly lit
A receipt photographed at a till is none of the things a parser wants. It is read anyway, because that is the form these documents actually arrive in.
Columns survive
OCR-then-parse flattens a page to a line of words and loses which column a number was in. The layout is read as a layout, so debit stays debit.
Questions people ask
- Can it read a scanned or photographed document?
- Yes. Scans and phone photos are read the way a person reads them — a crumpled receipt or a skewed scan still works, and there is no template to configure for each bank.
- What if one PDF holds many receipts?
- It splits them apart. Fifty receipts scanned into a single PDF become fifty rows; a twelve-page statement stays one document.
- Are the amounts real numbers in Excel?
- Yes. Amounts and balances arrive as numeric cells, so a column sums the moment you open the file.
- How are foreign currencies handled?
- Each amount is converted at the published rate for the date of that transaction — not today's rate. The rate and its date sit beside the figure so you can check it.
- Do I need an account?
- No. Convert a batch, pay once, download it. An account is only for a monthly page allowance.
- Does it work with QuickBooks and Xero?
- Yes. Alongside Excel, you can download a statement as OFX — the standard bank-data format both read — or as a ready-made CSV laid out the way each one expects: Date, Amount, Payee, Description, Reference for Xero, and the three-column Date, Description, Amount for QuickBooks, with money out already signed negative. Invoices and receipts can also come out as UBL XML for an ERP or an e-invoicing system.