When your Metro Bank statement arrives as a scan or a photo of the page rather than a clean export, the numbers on it are just pixels until they are extracted. A statement that has been scanned or photographed, rather than exported as a clean file, will be read with OCR before extraction begins. The engine processes the captured image, identifies the transaction table, and pulls out every row it can recognise. Because the printed closing balance is already known, the extracted running balance is checked against it step by step; any figure that does not add up is flagged for review rather than causing the whole file to be rejected.
When a Metro Bank statement you need to convert spans more than one page, Convert·Into merges every page into a single transaction table rather than treating each page as its own file. Statements that run several pages long are handled as one continuous document. You upload the full file; the engine reconstructs the transaction list across page breaks, merging headers and columns into a single table. The running-balance check follows the reconstructed sequence from the first line to the last, confirming that the total matches the statement’s own printed closing figure on the final page.
However your Metro Bank statement lays out its columns, that layout is only useful to you once it is mapped correctly into the export. Mapping each extracted column into the right place in the export is the step that determines how cleanly the data lands in your accounting tool. Convert·Into shows you a preview of the extracted columns alongside the target fields in your chosen export format. You drag each source column, date, description, debit, credit, balance, onto its corresponding destination field once. The mapping is remembered for every subsequent statement that shares the same layout, so the next file you upload skips straight to the export. When you select Excel, CSV or QBO, the columns are written in the exact order and format that the target expects, with dates in a consistent format and numbers stripped of currency symbols, ready for import without further cleanup.