Upload a check photo or scan and get a formatted spreadsheet row with date, payee, amount, check number, and bank details—no manual typing required.
Photograph checks with your phone camera or run them through a desktop scanner. Upload JPEGs, PNGs, TIFFs, or scanned PDFs—one at a time or in bulk batches.
The engine reads each check image and maps payee, date, amount, check number, memo, and MICR data into labeled Excel columns. One check per row, perfectly structured for sorting and filtering.
Download a ready-to-use .xlsx file that opens directly in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. Columns are pre-formatted so you can pivot, filter, or import into your accounting system immediately.
“I used to spend every Monday morning manually typing checks into a spreadsheet. Now I photograph the stack, upload the folder, and have a formatted check register in minutes.”
“Audit season used to mean two weeks of pulling check images and re-keying them. With Lido we batch-process a year of checks into one Excel file in an afternoon.”
“The amounts come through as actual currency values, not text strings. Our VLOOKUP formulas and pivot tables just work without any cleanup step.”
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Converting check images to Excel means extracting the key fields from a photograph or scan of a paper check—date, payee, amount, check number, routing number, and account number—and placing each value into a properly formatted spreadsheet column. The result is one row per check, ready for sorting, filtering, summing, and importing into accounting software without any manual retyping.
Despite the rise of electronic payments, paper checks remain a significant part of business transactions in the United States. The Federal Reserve reported over 3.4 billion checks processed in 2023. For bookkeepers, property managers, and accounts receivable teams, these checks still need to be recorded somewhere—and that somewhere is usually Excel. The bottleneck is getting the data from the physical check into the spreadsheet without errors and without spending minutes per check on manual entry.
The key to a useful check-to-Excel conversion is proper data typing. Amounts should arrive as numbers formatted as currency, not text strings that break SUM formulas. Dates should be actual date values so you can sort chronologically and filter by month or quarter. Check numbers should be text to preserve leading zeros. Lido handles all of this automatically, producing Excel files where every column has the correct data type for immediate use in formulas, pivot tables, and VLOOKUP operations.
For audit preparation, batch conversion is especially valuable. Instead of pulling individual check images from your bank’s archive and manually building a check register, you upload an entire folder of check images and receive a single, sortable spreadsheet covering the full audit period. This cuts days of prep work down to hours and produces a more reliable record than manual transcription, since AI extraction eliminates the transposition errors that plague high-volume data entry.
Upload the check image in any format (JPEG, PNG, PDF, or TIFF) to an AI-powered extraction tool like Lido. The AI reads the check and outputs one Excel row per check with columns for date, payee, amount, check number, routing number, and account number. Amounts are formatted as currency and dates as date fields so Excel formulas and sorting work immediately.
A typical check-to-Excel extraction captures check number, date, payee name, numeric amount, written amount, routing number, account number, bank name, and memo line. Lido maps each field to a named column in the output spreadsheet. You can add custom AI columns to extract additional fields like invoice references written in the memo line.
Yes. Lido supports batch uploads where you drag and drop an entire folder of check images. Each check image becomes one row in a single Excel spreadsheet, so you get a complete check register in one file. You can also set up email auto-forwarding so checks sent as attachments are automatically extracted and appended to your spreadsheet.
Yes. AI vision models handle handwritten check fields including cursive payee names and written dollar amounts. The AI cross-references the written amount against the numeric amount for validation. Lido provides a confidence score on each field so you can flag any handwritten extractions below your accuracy threshold for manual review.
For audit prep, batch-upload all check images for the audit period. The resulting Excel file serves as a check register with sortable columns for date, amount, and payee. You can filter by date range, sum amounts by payee, and cross-reference against your bank statement. Lido retains no copies of your documents after extraction, which simplifies data handling during audits.
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Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine
Built on Lido’s OCR engine