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Ledgavo guides — bank statements, PDFs and spreadsheets, answered honestly
Free routes first, every time. Where a free route does the job, we say so.
- How to convert a PDF bank statement to CSV
The free routes first, what each gets wrong, and the one check worth doing whichever route you take.
- PDF bank statement to Excel: every route, free first
Getting the rows into the right columns, and making Excel check the statement for you.
- The bank's CSV export only goes back a few months
Catching up a year of books when the older months are PDFs — including the check across months.
- Password-protected bank statement PDFs
What the password usually is, why some tools quietly fail on them, and two ways to work with them.
- Is it safe to upload a bank statement to an online converter?
What you are handing over, the questions to ask first, and the routes that keep the file on your computer.