Convert Dutch bank statements to Excel
Tallyscope reads Dutch column headers, dates and numbers in your browser and checks every row against the running balance before you export to Excel or CSV.
What Tallyscope reads in Dutch (Nederlands) statements. The site is in English; no bank names are used or implied.
Dutch bank statements to Excel
Dutch statements can label their money-out and money-in columns with the very short words Af and Bij, and the reader has to take care that these tiny words are not mistaken for parts of other text. The file is read in your browser tab and every row is checked against the printed running balance. The Dutch-specific parts follow.
Dutch column headers the reader recognises
| Column | Dutch words |
|---|---|
| Date | Datum |
| Description | Omschrijving, Mededelingen |
| Debit (money out) | Af, Afschrijving |
| Credit (money in) | Bij, Bijschrijving |
| Amount | Bedrag |
| Balance | Saldo |
The statement-level labels Beginsaldo and Eindsaldo are recognised as the opening and closing balance. Matching ignores case, accents and punctuation, and the lists hold more words than shown. An unrecognised header can be assigned by hand in the column mapper.
A Dutch sample, row by row
The figures below are synthetic and use Dutch conventions for headers, dates and numbers. The opening label Beginsaldo is the statement's starting balance. The same table, saved as a CSV, is read by the real parser in our automated tests, so what follows is what the reader actually does with it.
| Datum | Omschrijving | Af | Bij | Saldo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginsaldo | 1.208,50 | |||
| 02-01-2026 | Salaris | 2.685,00 | 3.893,50 | |
| 15-01-2026 | Huur | 808,00 | 3.085,50 | |
| 20-01-2026 | Boodschappen | 83,83 | 3.001,67 | |
| 28-01-2026 | Terugbetaling | 17,25 | 3.018,92 | |
- 02-01-2026 is read as 2 January 2026. 2.685,00 in the Bij column becomes +2,685.00, and the printed balance 3.893,50 is 3,893.50, which equals 1,208.50 plus 2,685.00.
- 15-01-2026 is read as 15 January 2026. 808,00 in the Af column becomes -808.00, and the printed balance 3.085,50 is 3,085.50.
- 20-01-2026 is read as 20 January 2026. 83,83 in the Af column becomes -83.83, and the printed balance 3.001,67 is 3,001.67.
- 28-01-2026 is read as 28 January 2026. 17,25 in the Bij column becomes +17.25, and the printed balance 3.018,92 is 3,018.92.
Opening 1,208.50, plus the four movements (net +1,810.42), gives 3,018.92, the last printed balance 3.018,92. Every row agrees with the running balance, so this statement is shown as Verified.
Money out and money in in Dutch statements
This sample uses two money columns, a layout found in many Dutch-language statements: Af holds money out and Bij holds money in, and each amount is printed without a sign because the column carries the direction. The reader takes the direction from the column and then checks it against the balance; if a column were swapped, the balance would not follow and the statement would not be marked Verified.
Dutch OCR at a glance
| Model code | nld |
| Writing system | Latin letters |
| Bundled English model | Reads digits and Latin letters; the nld model improves accented or special letters |
| Text PDF, spreadsheet, bank file | No OCR and no model download |
Dates in Dutch statements
januari is read as January. Dates with hyphens such as 15-01-2026 are read day first.
Examples that are read correctly: 15 januari 2026, 15-01-2026.
Numbers and signs
Amounts like 1.234,56 use the point for thousands and the comma for decimals and are read as 1,234.56.
Examples that are read correctly: 1.234,56, 1.234,56-. The running balance is the final judge of every sign.
Scanned Dutch statements and the OCR model
The bundled English model reads Latin script. With the OCR language set to English only, nothing is downloaded; in automatic mode (the default) a poor read can trigger up to three trial model downloads from the jsDelivr CDN (cdn.jsdelivr.net), plus any language remembered from this session or detected earlier, and no statement content is ever sent. If your browser's language is Dutch, its model (nld) is the first one tried. Choosing Dutch by hand in the OCR language setting turns auto-detect off, and scans are then read with that model.
The file stays in your tab (every network use is listed here).
What is specific to Dutch
Af (read as debit) is only two letters, so it is matched only as a whole header cell and never inside longer text. Bij (read as credit) has three letters, so it can also match inside a longer header cell: Overboeking bij is read as a credit column.
Beginsaldo and Eindsaldo are the balances the arithmetic proof starts and ends from. Mededelingen and Omschrijving both map to the description.
Convert a Dutch statement
Add the file to Tallyscope (10 files at once are free), read each statement's status, fix flagged rows on the Review tab, then export: CSV is free for the first 25 rows; unlimited CSV and Excel, PDF, JSON, OFX, QuickBooks CSV, Xero CSV and a reconciliation report (PDF, plus an Excel sheet) come with the Day pass or Pro (pricing). Several Dutch and non-Dutch files can be merged into one table.
No accuracy percentage is claimed: layouts vary, and the arithmetic check says whether a given statement reconciled (how verification works).
Frequently asked questions
Does Tallyscope read Dutch bank statements?
It recognises Dutch column headers, balance labels, dates and number formats, and checks the rows against the running balance. The website itself is only in English.
Do I need to download an OCR model for Dutch?
Not necessarily. The bundled English model reads digits and Latin letters first. If a scan reads poorly, auto-detect (the default) may download a language model such as Dutch (nld) from the jsDelivr CDN (cdn.jsdelivr.net), or you can pick it by hand. Only a model file is requested; no statement content is sent.
Are my Dutch statements uploaded?
No. Files are read in your browser tab. The only OCR download is a language model file from the jsDelivr CDN, requested only when a scan needs a non-English model; no statement content is sent with it.