OCR or "scanning" of receipts

Feedback & Ideas
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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

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

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

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

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

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Hi,

Have a read of this thread

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

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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.

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I’m bumping this because I was just about to create my own topic idea for it.

But I just mentioned elsewhere that taking a photo of a receipt in 2023 feels a little bit archaic, OCR is native within the notes app now so surely implementing it into the Monzo app isn’t too far of a stretch?

Also, the option to delete said receipt because at current you can’t delete one once you take a photo of one, so if you take a photo (or future scan maybe) of a wrong receipt, you’re buggered.

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