Bulk convert ANZ statements to CSV

Twelve ANZ statements, converted by hand, means opening each PDF, dragging a selection over a table that doesn't want to be selected, pasting it in, and finding the BPAY reference number has landed in the description column again. A year of ANZ Internet Banking history is exactly that, twelve times, because ANZ hands statements over one period at a time with no export for the underlying data.

Ten PDFs go into a batch at once. Set the bank to ANZ, run it, and what comes back is a single CSV with every transaction from every file in date order, a year of one account clearing in two runs.

Where a generic PDF-to-table tool usually falls down on ANZ statements is the payment types. An Osko transfer description like "PAYID SARAH JONES [email protected] REF INVOICE 4471" needs to survive intact for the file to be any use for reconciliation. Split across two columns or truncated at the reference number, and it's not. The parser here is built against ANZ's actual column layout, so EFTPOS, PayID, Osko and BPAY entries keep their full description, and the balance carries through correctly from the opening figure to the close.

Pick the wrong bank when uploading and that file comes back as a named failure rather than an empty CSV, with no credit spent chasing the mistake. Batches don't have to be one account: an ANZ Access Advantage statement and an ANZ Rewards card can run in the same batch, and statements from other banks can sit alongside them if that's how the job's shaped.