Bank Statement Converter Blog

For some reason the international payment company Wise (which used to be called Transfer Wise) issues PDF bank statements.

Revenue and Monthly Recurring Revenue are down significantly since we peaked in February 2026.

In a previous post I talked about how OCRing the PDF would solve the problem I was facing.

A few days ago I got this email from a customer.

Yesterday I was going through error reports and I saw this email.

On Monday morning I was going through emails and see one from a user telling me the forgot password form isn’t working.

A few months ago I got an email from a customer in Dubai asking me to help extract transactions from a PDF bank statement.

I have written a book about how I coded Bank Statement Converter.

Plumpbird: February is the shortest month of the year.

Plumbird: It’s been a while since you’ve shared sales numbers.

Normally this blog goes out on a Monday, but since the month ended on a Monday I figured it would be better to wait a day.

On October 21st monthly recurring revenue (MRR) exceeded the $5000 USD mark.

Last Week’s Goals Plumpbird: Set some harder goals this week you lazy jerk!

Bad News Last week I walked from Tung Chung to Mui Wo, which is section #1 and #2 of the Lantau Trail.

September Sales Another month has gone by, let’s take a look at the monthly revenue graph.

Here’s what I got up to last week.

Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is the most important metric when running a SaaS company.

I don’t know when this started, but at some point in my life some jerk has gone and renamed “Customer Support” to “Customer Success”.

I usually work on this app from a shared office that I’ve been renting since January 2021.

Since I started this website in April 2021, I knew users would upload PDF files that were password protected.

Postman Collection Download 1.

Last week a customer asked me to help him process a few hundred of his documents.

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of complaints that the year is wrong in Bank Statement Converter’s resulting CSV.

The other day I had a bit of revelation about what problem Bank Statement Converter solves.

A few weeks ago the BankStatementConverter (BSC) exceed $1000 in Monthly Recurring Revneue (MRR).

This is the second part in a series of blog posts where I explain how Bank Statement Converter works.

This is part one of a series of blog posts where I explain how BankStatementConverter works.

Originally I wanted to analyse my HSBC bank statements from 2014. 2014 was a great year for me, I started off the year by launching a new app, joined a game development company and rented an apartment with a friend.

I use Grafana to create graphs that show me various business and performance metrics for Bank Statement Converter.

The lowercase friendly NAB logo reminds me of Jeb Bush’s 2016 ‘Jeb!’

Are the people in this building good at making PDFs?

I own a limited liability company in Hong Kong called Dragon King Creation Limited.

Getting data from a PDF file into an Excel file is a major pain in the ass.

I’ve been working on a new project that requires lots of different social sign in providers.

A few weeks ago I got an email from a user in Australia, it read “I uploaded a bank statement and nothing happens How do I see the converted file?”.