CSV Cleaner

Remove total and footer lines from a bank CSV export

Some bank exports end with lines that are not transactions: a total, a closing note, a line saying how many records the file holds. An importer reads them as broken rows or rejects the file. Choose the file below: the page works in your browser, shows the first 20 cleaned rows and lists every line it left out, with the reason.

Clean your CSV export

The cleaner detects the delimiter (comma, semicolon or tab), looks for a header row with a date column and an amount column, and writes eight fixed columns, comma-delimited: date, description, amount, currency, fee, net, reference and source. It recognises common header names in English, Spanish, German and French, such as Date, Fecha, Buchungstag, Amount, Importe, Betrag and Montant.

Your file is read in your browser and is never uploaded, stored or logged. It is held in the memory of this tab only, and closing or reloading the page discards it. Operator: Augeo. See the privacy notice.

Exports do not share one layout, and this page makes no promise about yours: the free preview shows what it does to your file.

The cleaning logic is checked by an automated test script that runs the engine file of this site over six synthetic sample files and a set of checks of the parsing rules; it ran in a sandbox before this site was published and finished with no failed check. The script does not open this page in a browser, does not test the licence key step, and nothing was tested against a real export from any provider. Use the free preview to check your own file.

Download the full cleaned file

  • Price: 6 USD, paid once on Gumroad. No subscription. You receive a licence key.
  • What the key unlocks: the download of every cleaned row of the file you chose, as one CSV named after your file with -cleaned.csv at the end, instead of the first 20 rows on screen. The report and the way files are read stay the same.
  • The key is for one buyer. Runs are not counted and no number of runs is promised. The key is kept in the memory of this page only, so you enter it again after closing or reloading the page.
  • Refunds are requested through your Gumroad receipt and follow Gumroad's refund policy.
  • Try the free preview first. If the preview cannot read your file, the full download cannot either.

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How total and footer lines are handled

Two limits follow from that rule. A closing line that holds a readable date in the date column and a number in the amount column, such as a dated closing balance, is read as a transaction, because nothing in the rule tells it apart from one: look at the last rows of the preview or of the downloaded file. And a real transaction at the end of the file whose date cannot be read is listed as a footer line, so read the list before you rely on the output.

When no row of the file is read as a transaction, nothing is listed as a footer line; every row that could not be read is listed under "Lines not parsed".

The output is always the same eight columns (date, description, amount, currency, fee, net, reference and source), comma-delimited. Columns of your file that are not among them are not carried over, so this is a cleaner for files of transactions and not a general CSV editor.

In a text editor instead: open a copy of the file, delete every line after the last transaction and save it under a new name.

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