tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/financial-institution-direct-connection-support-requests/3512-converterInfinite Kind: Discussion 2018-03-16T23:55:05Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/412858792016-11-22T22:51:22Z2016-11-22T22:51:22Zconverter<div><p>Perhaps you mean ofx files? Yes?</p>
<p>Trying to convert PDF files to OFX, QIF or even CSV can be
extremely difficult (text base PDF files) to almost impossible
(image based PDF files) So first check to see if your bank provides
any other formats at all - if they don't then complain LOUDLY.
Noisy complaining customers threatening to close all their accounts
and go elsewhere are the biggest reason for banks changing their
approach.</p></div>dwgtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/412858792016-11-22T23:57:52Z2016-11-22T23:57:52Zconverter<div><p>PDF is almost certainly not going to work. Does your bank offer
any other formats?</p>
<p>Ben Spencer<br>
Infinite Kind Support</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/412858792016-11-23T07:28:48Z2016-11-23T15:32:07Zconverter<div><p>what about the program "pdf2ofx"</p></div>Eddy Pulinxtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/412858792016-11-23T15:41:20Z2016-11-23T15:41:20Zconverter<div><p>PDF files are designed to be viewed by humans or printed. They
are not designed to have tabular data extracted and processed by a
computer. There is no standard way transaction information should
be encoded in a PDF file so I would expect any data extraction
process would be error prone and time consuming. I would be really
surprised if the results were constantly accurate.</p>
<p>It seems like they have a free trial available so you might as
well give it a try. I personally would strongly complain to my bank
if they didn't provide downloads in a computer readable format and
consider switching to a bank that does.</p>
<p>Ben Spencer<br>
Infinite Kind Support</p></div>Ben Spencer