American Express Statement to Excel or CSV

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Flags what it cannot check

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Where the check stops: On a card statement every amount sits in one column and the bank prints the minus sign itself. The converter reads those signs off the page and marks the result as unverified, because there is no balance to confirm it against.

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Amex statements are card statements: a list of charges with no running balance. This page converts them into a spreadsheet in your browser, without sending the file anywhere.

How to get the PDF from American Express

Log in to americanexpress.com and open the card.
Open Statements and Activity and download the PDF.
Drop that file into the box above.

What an American Express statement looks like inside

A line starts with two dates, transaction date then posting date, followed by the details and a single amount column. Payments and credits carry a minus sign in that column; charges do not.

Only the transaction date goes into your spreadsheet. The posting date is dropped rather than glued onto the front of the description.
Because there is one amount column and not two, the sign has to be read from the number itself - a minus sign or brackets around the figure both count.
Headings such as New Payments and Total of Payment Activity start with words instead of a date, so they never become rows of their own.

American Express is the only one of the four that prints two dates on every line, and it shares the awkward part with Bank of America: no running balance anywhere, so nothing to check the amounts against.

Amex prints a lot of explanatory text around the table. Legal footers and how-to-read blocks are cut out of descriptions, but a long reference number printed on the same line stays with the transaction.

Why does the page say the balance could not be checked?

Because an Amex statement has no balance to check. This tool only calls a result verified when the previous balance plus the amount equals the next balance on the file's own rows. On a card statement that test does not exist, so it reports the signs as inferred instead of claiming a clean run.

Other banks

The converter reads the layout of the document itself, so it is not limited to these - but these have their own page:

Chase · HSBC · Bank of America · Wells Fargo · Capital One · Citibank · Barclays · NatWest