My credit union will only give out monthly statements as PDFs. For some reason, the pdf-to-text converters don't strip out rows or lines of text, but rather columns, so a semi-automated solution is out-of-the-question. I've resorted to mouse-copying entries in Firefox, then pasting the text into a word processor to get rows of data I can work with.<p>The tellers are magnificently ignorant about this, as is the telephone helpline. To them, the PDF actually is the data the credit union uses. No other form of data exists, except possibly in an Excel spreadsheet, and they can't give data in that format. I blame the prevalence of Windows for this. Between the use of file name "extension" to indicate format of the file, hiding the "extension" in file browsers, the single document at a time orientation, and almost exclusive use of WYSIWYG systems like Word and Excel, it's pretty hard to understand that a difference between "the data" and "the formatting" exists.