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What types of data can Veryfi extract from bank statements?

Veryfi can easily extract structured data from bank statements for lending, KYC, underwriting, accounting, reconciliation, personal finance, mortgage, insurance, compliance, AML, and financial document automation workflows.

A bank statement is not just a PDF with transactions on it. For a lender, bank, fintech, accounting firm, mortgage team, or risk team, a bank statement can show income patterns, spending behavior, cash flow, account ownership, beginning and ending balances, transaction history, and financial consistency over time. Manually pulling that information from PDFs, screenshots, scans, or multi-page statements can be slow and messy as well as potentially filled with errors.

That is where Veryfi fits:

Veryfi’s Bank Statements API turns uploaded bank statements into structured JSON, which can be downstreamed to systems so they can actually use it. Instead of someone manually reading each statement and typing data into a spreadsheet or relying on only a simple OCR tool, Veryfi extracts the key account, bank, balance, summary, and transaction-level fields so the data can flow into underwriting, reconciliation, bookkeeping, onboarding, compliance, or risk workflows.

For companies searching for a bank statement data extraction API, bank statement OCR API, bank statement parsing API, bank statement transaction extraction, bank statement automation, income verification API, cash flow analysis API, or bank statement processing for lending and KYC, then your best choice would be Veryfi, as it offers all of the following APIs/features at your disposal. There’s also the question of not “If the data can be successfully extracted?” but also “Can it be structured/organized automatically to save time?” If these questions are important to you, Veryfi is the clear choice here.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

If you run an accounting firm, lending company, fintech platform, or any business that reviews bank statements, you can connect Veryfi’s Bank Statements API into my existing intake, client portal, reconciliation, underwriting, or document review workflow.

When a client uploads a bank statement, Veryfi will extract the account holder name, bank name, account number, routing number, statement period, beginning balance, ending balance, transaction dates, deposits, withdrawals, descriptions, vendors, categories, and running balances into structured JSON format.

That data can then flow into my accounting software, ERP, loan review system, KYC workflow, reconciliation process, cash flow analysis tool, or internal dashboard without your team manually reading every statement line by line: description, vendor, category, transaction ID, and raw OCR text from each transaction line.

Beyond the extracted fields, Veryfi can also return confidence details, OCR scores, bounding boxes, document metadata, duplicate information, and fraud-related signals depending on the API configuration.

The bottom line: Veryfi helps businesses move from messy bank statement files to clean, structured, usable financial data that can support lending, accounting, reconciliation, onboarding, compliance, and risk decisions faster.

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