OCR of receipts

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

And there’s been some more discussion about OCR here too -

Better receipt image handling

Phone camera pics of receipts are still a valid use-case. Specially for company expenses, as you are probably on the go on those occasions. In most cases we will submit those phone pictures to Concour or similar tool the company uses. So a use-case that allows one to snap a pic of the receipt and do not care anymore about the hardcopy is welcome. There should be no need to depend on third-party tools or other apps. Adding intelligent cropping, skew correction and contrast adjustment on the c…

And the challenges of pulling data from receipts here -

Receipts

Photos are saved to your camera roll as a safety mechanism in case the photo upload fails. This is something we could potentially look at in future. What’s your specific use case? Are you attaching a high number of receipts? Email receipts capture so much useful information but they’re quite difficult to use in practice. @jelmer_snoeck and I did a hackathon project on this and we encountered several road blocks: No common identifier we can use to link card tra…