Convert 12 months of bank statements to CSV

Twelve statements is roughly where doing it by hand stops making sense. One you can retype. Three you can put up with. Twelve means opening a PDF, selecting a table that doesn't want to be selected, pasting it somewhere, noticing the dates have gone American, and then doing that eleven more times.

The reasons people need a full year are almost always deadline-shaped. A tax return. An overdue BAS. A loan application. Books nobody has touched since the last financial year. The statements are never the point, and every hour spent converting them is an hour not spent on the thing that actually matters.

Batch conversion handles ten statements at a time, so a calendar year is two runs. Set the bank once, apply it to every file, convert, then download one merged CSV with every transaction from every statement in date order. Each row carries a Source File column, so when a number needs checking you can trace it back without guessing.

What you get is a clean spreadsheet with date, description, debit, credit and category columns. It opens in Excel or Google Sheets as-is, and imports into Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks without reformatting.