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Bank Statement PDF to CSV

Convert bank statement PDFs into clean CSV in seconds.

Intermediate14h1 person17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Bank Statement PDF to CSV for accountants and individuals in ~14h with 1 person. Stack: PDF.js + Python + Next.js.

Why it wins: Painful problem with a verifiable output.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Statements come as PDFs that cannot be analysed without retyping.
02 · Solution
Extract tables from PDFs, normalise dates and amounts, handle multi-page layouts and validate that balances add up.
03 · Build
  1. 1Read PDFs
  2. 2Detect table rows
  3. 3Normalise values
  4. 4Validate balances
04 · Demo
Convert a three-page statement and show the balance check pass.

MVP checklist

  • Table extraction
  • Balance validation
  • Multi-bank formats
  • CSV export

Tech stack

TechRole
PDF.jsPDF parsing in the browser
PythonBackend / scripting
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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