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Your converter gave you an Excel. Does it actually balance?
Send us the original bank statement and the spreadsheet any converter produced from it. We re-read the PDF ourselves and compare, amount by amount — then tell you whether the file adds up to the balance the bank printed, and which amounts are missing or invented if it doesn't.
The same arithmetic, run on a fixed public corpus, is published as an open benchmark — our own refusals included.
Why a vendor-neutral check matters
Accuracy percentages and in-product reconciliation can be useful, but they keep the source, extraction and verdict inside one vendor's workflow. This checker accepts an Excel or CSV from any converter, including RowSure, so the arithmetic question does not depend on who made the file.
We'll do it on their file as readily as on ours. The check is arithmetic, not opinion: your bank printed an opening balance and a closing balance, and the transactions in between have to account for the difference. If the spreadsheet you were given doesn't, something was dropped, misread or duplicated — and you want to know before those numbers reach a set of books.
And when we can't tell, we say so. If our own reading is not green-verified — because it has balance exceptions or its PDF-source evidence still needs review — we won't blame anyone. We'll report whether the files agree or disagree without claiming an unproved reference is right. Accusing another tool on the strength of an extraction we haven't proved would make this page worthless.
What the check tells you
Whether the total ties out
Opening balance, plus every amount in your spreadsheet, against the closing balance printed on the statement. One number, and it either closes or it doesn't.
What's missing
Amounts we read in the PDF that aren't in your file. A dropped transaction is the failure mode that a tidy-looking export hides best.
What's extra
Amounts in your file that we can't find in the statement — duplicates, or a figure that came from somewhere other than the page.
The comparison covers amounts. Dates and descriptions are read but not arithmetically proven, and two errors of equal size and opposite sign would cancel out — a documented limit of any balance check, stated here rather than hidden. More on how the validation works.
Who checks a converter's output
Bookkeepers doing catch-up work on a client's year, where a wrong figure is found months later by someone else. Accountants importing to QuickBooks, where a flipped sign becomes a revenue entry. Forensic accountants and insolvency practitioners, who have to state in writing where a number came from. Anyone who has had the experience — common enough that it's most of our inbox — of an export that looked perfect and wasn't.
If it turns out the file is fine, that's the answer, and it's free. If it isn't, you now know before it costs you anything.
What happens to the two files
- Both are read and then deleted as soon as the comparison is done — not at the end of the day, not on a schedule.
- The result page itself goes within the hour.
- No account, no email required, nothing kept.
- No analytics script, no third-party asset, no external font on this site: loading the page announces nothing about you to an advertising or analytics company.
Check the file you were given
Free, one a day, no account. And if you'd rather we did the conversion properly in the first place, that's the rest of the site.