Hi HN! I built Bank Parser to solve a problem CPAs face: importing old Chase and Bank of America statements into QuickBooks.

  Chase limits CSV downloads to 18 months. For 5+ years of historical data, CPAs manually enter transactions (45-60 min per statement).

  Generic PDF converters (Tabula, PDFTables) fail on bank statements because:
  - Multiple formats in same year (Chase v2 AND v3 in 2024)
  - No consistent headers in some PDFs
  - Need heuristic column detection

  My solution:
  - Structure-based format detection (not year-based)
  - Heuristic column inference for headerless PDFs
  - 99% accuracy tested on 70+ PDFs
  - QuickBooks-ready 16-field format

  Tech stack: Node.js, pdfjs-dist (Mozilla PDF.js), TypeScript, Bull queue.

  Free trial: 200 operations (3-4 statements).

  Looking for feedback from anyone working with financial data or PDF parsing!