Does anyone know of a good alternative to Auto Entry for digitising of bank statements? I previously used Statement Rec, but since they have changed to Auto Entry, I just find it garbage and the charging structure is also very strange.
I know of various other packages that can digitise invoices, but I've not come across any for bank statements.
Thanks for your help :-)
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Able2Extract
After taking advice from people on here on various software this one was the one that stood out. Brilliant software and easily extracts data.
Speak to AutoEntry. I found that by using their AccountsPrep integration you can achieve similar or in some cases better functionality than with StatementRec.
In the absence of a CSV from the client, Able2Extract or Fujitsu Scanner which comes with its own Scansnap & Abbyy software
If you are looking for a program for OCR of bank statements, the completely free online AltoPDF is by far the best PDF to Excel converter I have tested.
In general, OCR programs do a poor job of converting a PDF of your bank statement to Excel with columns that are consistent from one page of the bank statement to the next.
I have 150 page bank statements and have tried many OCR programs. Most suck.
https://altoconvertpdftoexcel.com
FYI: Alto has many other converters such as PDF to Word.
I've used the Fujitsu software in the past, which is quite good for slightly less than perfect PDFs of bank statements, but it takes quite a while to map out the table structure on each page.
I'm very happy with AutoEntry, but, as you say, their pricing structure is a little weird, and if the bank statements aren't scanned in perfectly, they will reject the batch.