OCR or "scanning" of receipts

#1

At the moment, this app allows for photos of receipts, but it’d be great to have an OCR feature or at least a scanning feature like CamScanner does.

If OCR was achievable then showing it like the Flux receipts do would be great

#2

On iPhone at least, with iOS 13, you can scan with the Files App and use that with the transaction.

#3

You could technically do this with Android too, it’s just a faff having to use another app etc

#4

Just looked a bit further into Files and I think it always scans as PDF which is not useable in Monzo as a receipt?

#5

When I was at Cambridge, some of my friends built this: https://devpost.com/software/indisposed-desirable-javalina

#6

Hi,

Have a read of this thread

Also tryflux.com are working on the physical receipts also.

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#7

It unfortunately doesn’t do OCR to add proper text to the PDF, although it does produce a nice clean scan you can run through another tool.