PDFTables alternative

The statement-specific PDFTables alternative

PDFTables is a well-built British service — Cantabular Ltd, registered in England and Wales, converting PDFs since 2014 and, by its own count, over half a billion pages so far — with official API example clients in nine languages, no surcharge for using the API, and an on-premises edition you can run on your own hardware.

If the PDFs you convert are bank statements, NoRekey is the narrower tool: every conversion reconciled against the statement's own opening and closing balances, exported as OFX and QFX as well as CSV, at about a fifth of the entry per-page price.

No sign-up to try · drop a statement right here
Free plan with API access · originals deleted the moment conversion finishes
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Drop your statements here
or browse files · PDFs up to 20 MB each
.csv.xlsx.ofx.qfx.json
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Drop the PDF
One statement or a whole folder — no account needed to try.
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We extract & balance
Dates, descriptions, amounts and running balance, checked against totals.
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Export anywhere
CSV, Excel, OFX, QFX or JSON — ready for your accounting tool.

NoRekey vs PDFTables, feature by feature

An honest side-by-side. PDFTables is a different product with its own strengths, so it wins some rows — we've left those in.

Convert PDF bank statements to a spreadsheet
PDFTablesYes
NoRekeyYes
Web API included
PDFTablesYes — no extra cost on top of credits
NoRekeyYes — every plan, including free
Price per text page (entry pricing)
PDFTables$0.05 — one credit a page, $50 for 1,000 credits
NoRekey~$0.01 — $24/month for 2,500 pages
Price per scanned page
PDFTables$0.10 at entry pricing — AI extractor, two credits a page
NoRekey~$0.03 on Practice — scanned pages draw 3 pages of allowance
Billing model
PDFTablesPrepaid credits, valid one year — nothing recurring to cancel
NoRekeyMonthly plan with a page allowance
Try it before you pay
PDFTablesPDFTables says its free trial plan is no longer available — register, then buy credits before converting
NoRekey10 pages every month free, and a conversion without signing up
Balance verification against the statement's own opening and closing balances
PDFTablesNo
NoRekeyYes
Export formats
PDFTablesXLSX, CSV, XML, HTML
NoRekeyCSV, XLSX, OFX, QFX, JSON
Pages joined into one continuous transaction list
PDFTablesNo — blank row between pages, or one sheet per page
NoRekeyYes
Bank-specific conversion guides
PDFTablesCountry groupings on its financial-statements page — UK, USA, Australia, India, Canada, China — no named banks
NoRekey96 bank-specific guides, UK and US
Direct QuickBooks / Xero / Sage integration
PDFTablesNo
NoRekeyNo
Extracts tables from any PDF, not just statements
PDFTablesYes
NoRekeyNo
Run it on your own server
PDFTablesOn-premises Linux edition, or Docker on request
NoRekeyNo
Official API example clients
PDFTablesNine languages, including VBA, C#, Java and Go
NoRekeyPython and Node
Comparison checked July 2026, from PDFTables's public docs and pricing.
The difference that matters

PDFTables sells credits up front, NoRekey bills monthly — either way, what matters is what a page costs, and what comes back.

Entry pricing, per text-based page, dollars on both sides. PDFTables sells prepaid credits and charges one credit a page on its Standard extractor; scanned pages need an AI extractor at two credits a page.

PDFTables
$0.05
per text page at entry pricing — $50 buys 1,000 credits, one credit a page
NoRekey
$0.01
per text-based page on Practice — $24/month for 2,500 pages
~$0.03 per scanned page — OCR, balance-checked
Free
For the occasional statement.
$0/forever
Start free
10 pages / month
Batch upload — drop several at once
All formats — CSV, Excel, OFX, QFX & JSON
Every conversion balance-checked
Full conversion history
Most popular
Practice
For working bookkeepers & accountants.
$19/month · $228 billed yearly
Get Practice
2,500 pages / month
3 team seats included
Everything in Free
Priority email support
Firm
For multi-seat teams & client work.
$65/month · $780 billed yearly
Get Firm
10,000 pages / month
20 team seats included
Everything in Practice
Priority support

Scanned or photographed statements convert too — OCR takes more work, so scanned pages use 3 pages of allowance each. How scan conversion works.

Yes — the free plan includes API access.
Convert 10 pages a month at no cost, and hit the same conversion endpoint from your own scripts. No card, no trial clock.

When PDFTables is the better choice

We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong subscription. Choose PDFTables if:

You cannot send client data to a third-party cloud — PDFTables sells an on-premises Linux edition, and offers a Docker microservice deployment on request.
Statements are only part of the job — PDFTables extracts tables from any PDF, so invoices, balance sheets and delivery notes go through the same tool.
You want a ready-made client for your language — PDFTables publishes official example clients for nine languages, including VBA for Excel macros, C#, Java and Go, where NoRekey's docs show Python and Node.

Switching from PDFTables — questions

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