How to download your Bank of America statement as a PDF

Getting the PDF from Bank of America

In Bank of America Online Banking

1. Log in to Online Banking.
2. Hover over Accounts at the top of the page and click Statements & Documents.
3. Pick the account and the year from the drop-down menus.
4. Click the statement to open it as a PDF.

In the Mobile Banking app

1. Log in to the Mobile Banking app and tap Menu.
2. Tap Statements and Documents.
3. Pick the account and year, then tap the statement.
4. Download, print or email it, depending on your phone's settings.

Other ways, history and charges

• Older statements can be requested in Online Banking from the Request statements tab under Statements & Documents. Electronic copies arrive in 24 to 36 hours and stay available for 7 days.
• A paper copy can be ordered from the same tab and is mailed in 7 to 10 business days.
• How far back: Bank of America's pages differ: its instructions page says the last 6 years of monthly statements can be viewed online with older ones up to 7 years on request, while its digital banking overview says 18 months.
• Charges: Electronic copies ordered in Online Banking are free; a $5 fee may apply to each mailed copy.

What we read from the statement

A bank statement PDF normally shows the account and the statement period, an opening and a closing balance, and one row per transaction with a date, a description and an amount, often with a running balance. From that we build the breakdown: where the money went by category, what repeats, and totals in and out. The report is labelled Bank of America when that name is printed near the top of the statement.

Dates and amounts on statements from the US

• Dates written as 05/04/2024, 05-04-24, 05.04.2024, 2024-04-05, 05 Apr 2024, 05-Apr-24 or Apr 5, 2024. A date with a month name but no year (05 Apr) takes its year from the statement header.
• Numeric dates are read month first (04/05/2024 is 5 April) unless the statement itself shows day-first dates, such as 25/04/2024, where the first number can only be a day.
• Amounts with two decimal places, such as 1,234.56 or 1234.56.
• Money out marked with a minus sign (before or after the number), brackets, or a DR suffix; CR marks money in. A statement with separate debit, credit and balance columns is read column by column.

Known limitations

Password-protected PDFs

We cannot open a PDF that asks for a password: the upload fails with "Could not read this PDF". Open it with the password, save or print an unlocked copy as PDF, and upload that.

Scanned statements

A scan or photo saved as PDF has no text layer, so we read it with OCR on our own server, up to the first 10 pages. OCR can misread a digit; the report says when it was used, so check its totals. A PDF downloaded from online banking is always more reliable.

Size

Up to 25 MB per file and the first 60 pages.

Dates without a year, whole-number amounts

A row whose date is only day and month in numbers (05/04) is not read, and neither is a row whose amount has no decimal part (150000 rather than 150000.00). If most of your rows look like that, the upload will say no transactions were found.

No layout made for this bank

There is no reader built specially for Bank of America. One general reader handles every bank, and the report checks what it found against the opening and closing balances printed on the statement, and says so when they do not add up.

Questions about Bank of America statements

Do you connect to my Bank of America account?

No. You download the statement from Bank of America yourself and upload the PDF. We never ask for your online banking login and cannot see your account.

Is my Bank of America statement stored?

No. The PDF is read in memory and never written to disk. If you buy an export, the rows for the download are kept in your private session so the button works, and are deleted when the session expires, after at most 14 days.

Can I convert a Bank of America statement to Excel or CSV?

Yes. Reading one statement on screen is free. Downloading it as a spreadsheet (a CSV file that Excel opens) needs a statement pack or a plan.

Is a Bank of America statement PDF password-protected?

Bank of America's own help pages that we checked do not say. If your PDF does ask for a password, open it with the password, save an unlocked copy, and upload that: we cannot open a locked PDF.

Which currency will the report use?

A statement that prints USD outside the transaction rows is read as US dollars. If the statement prints no currency at all, the report uses US dollars, the home currency of Bank of America, and says that is where it came from.

How far back can I get Bank of America statements?

Bank of America's pages differ: its instructions page says the last 6 years of monthly statements can be viewed online with older ones up to 7 years on request, while its digital banking overview says 18 months. (From Bank of America's help pages, checked 13 September 2026.)

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