I had the opposite experience.

At a previous company, one dev spent about 2-3 hours every single day to download PDFs with bank reports and then manually doing the conciliation.

I thought this was ridiculous. One afternoon I made a quick desktop app where he could drop the PDFs and get some JSONs back with all the data. The idea was that he then could semi automate the concilition with those JSONs.

Years later I left that company and he still was wasting all that time doing manual conciliation.