Published July 2026 by BalanceExtract Team
QIF is one of the oldest personal-finance file formats still in active use, but very few banks export it natively anymore — most favor CSV, Excel, or OFX instead. This guide covers converting a PDF statement from any bank directly into QIF for Quicken.
If Quicken is where your bookkeeping actually happens, getting a bank statement into it without retyping every transaction means converting to QIF first. Converts any bank's PDF statement — named detection for 23+ major banks, plus a generic parser for any other text-based PDF — into a standard QIF file, ready to import into Quicken.
No account needed for up to 6 pages.
Named detection recognizes 23+ major banks automatically; any other bank falls back to the generic layout parser.
Every row gets a confidence score before you export.
| Field code | What It Contains |
|---|---|
| D | Transaction date |
| T | Amount |
| P | Payee |
| M | Memo |
Honest side-by-side write-ups, including where each of them is the better choice.