Convert SEB Bank Statements to CSV

To convert an SEB bank statement to CSV, upload your digital or scanned PDF statement to BankStmtConverter. The extraction engine identifies dates, booking texts, transaction references, inflows, outflows, and running balances, structuring them into a standard comma-delimited table. You can immediately download your CSV file and import it directly into accounting systems like Fortnox, Visma, or custom ERPs.

How do I convert an SEB PDF statement to CSV?

1. Download your account statement (kontoutdrag) as a PDF from SEB internet banking.
2. Upload the PDF file to BankStmtConverter.
3. Review the preview table to verify extracted columns, Swedish krona (SEK) values, and balance continuity.
4. Select CSV as your output format and download the converted file to your computer.

Why convert SEB statements to CSV?

While PDF statements from SEB serve legal and archival needs, they cannot be ingested directly into Swedish bookkeeping tools without reformatting. A standardized CSV file breaks transactional data into distinct columns: Booking Date (Bokföringsdatum), Value Date (Valutadatum), Text/Reference (Text/Referens), Amount (Belopp), and Balance (Saldo).

Using CSV allows you to map SEB transaction fields straight into platforms such as Fortnox, Visma eEkonomi, Bokio, or Sage. Unlike proprietary formats, a plain CSV file allows custom delimiter settings (comma or semicolon), custom date formatting (such as standard ISO YYYY-MM-DD used across Sweden), and straightforward integration with automated Python or SQL ingestion pipelines. If you prefer spreadsheet formulas over raw text imports, you can also convert your statement to SEB to Excel format.

What data is extracted from SEB statements?

SEB statements contain account metadata, transactional lines, and running totals. The extraction parser processes multi-line booking texts and captures:

• Transaction Date and Value Date: Preserved in standard YYYY-MM-DD or DD.MM.YYYY format.
• Description and Reference: Cleans multi-line transaction texts such as Bankgiro payments, OCR reference numbers, Swish business transfers, card details, and international IBAN payments.
• Debits and Credits: Outgoing amounts (minus) and incoming amounts (plus) categorized into clean numeric values without intrusive currency suffixes.
• Running Balance: Running balances tracked after each transaction, checked against opening and closing balances.

Comparing conversion methods for SEB statements

Example of extracted SEB transaction data in CSV

Below is a realistic sample of how typical SEB commercial or private transactions appear once converted into a comma-separated format:

Date,Value Date,Description,Amount,Balance
2024-03-01,2024-03-01,BG 5051-6832 Leverantörsfaktura,-14500.00,182450.50
2024-03-02,2024-03-02,Swish Företag Inbetalning,3200.00,185650.50
2024-03-04,2024-03-04,Kortköp ICA Kvantum,-452.80,185197.70
2024-03-05,2024-03-05,SEB Bankgiro Inbetalning,45000.00,230197.70

The exported numbers use standardized decimal points, ensuring that accounting software imports read the negative and positive values without manual text-to-column splits.

Importing your SEB CSV into accounting software

Once your CSV is downloaded, you can import it into various accounting packages used throughout Sweden and the Nordics:

• Fortnox: Navigate to your bank account ledger, choose the file import option, and map the CSV columns: Booking Date to Date, Description to Text, and Amount to Transaction Amount.
• Visma eEkonomi: Go to the Bank and Cash Register module, select CSV import, and match your outgoing and incoming amounts against account ledger codes.
• Bokio: Upload the CSV directly under the Transactions tab for automated smart-bookkeeping suggestions.
• QuickBooks or Xero: If your workflow requires native accounting files, you can also produce direct SEB to Xero imports or standard Web Connect files.

Does it work with scanned or multi-page SEB statements?

Yes. Many older statements, archived tax records, or physical mailings from SEB exist only as scanned documents or image-only PDFs. BankStmtConverter incorporates Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engineered specifically for financial tables.

The OCR algorithm reconciles the sum of all extracted debits and credits against the printed starting and ending balance on the SEB statement. If a figure is smudged or ambiguous, the mathematical reconciliation flags any discrepancy, ensuring that your CSV balances out to the exact cent.

Data security and privacy

Financial records require strict confidentiality. Uploaded SEB statements are processed through encrypted connections and are automatically deleted from servers immediately after conversion. Your financial information is never stored permanently, shared with third parties, or used to train machine learning models. For support across other financial institutions in the region, browse our full index of Swedish bank converters.