Its only taken me a week of trial and error etc to finally extract a Receipt from an image.
I started with an image of a Receipt for Cheaney Shoes( A great Northhampton Shoe brand).
I initially tried to use Tesseract OCR which is an open source Optical Character recognition software but it would seem that it required way too much preprocessing to get anywhere meaningful.
I’ve since tried Google’s offering( Google vision) Which I assume is the technology underlying Google lens.
That is a hundred times better.
I think tomorrow I will play around with various other types of reciept(Train etc) to see what sort of accuracy and reliability there is.
Then after that the plan will be to see if it can be uploaded to the right transaction.
As it would seem that Monzo + is the hot topic.
I pose a question would you pay for the service(If Provided by Monzo((Especially as google would charge Monzo)))
Tesseract Version
hearey "Shoes Ltd
London
Jermyn Street
’ 21 Jermyn St
ay Tel: 020 7287 2996.
VAT #: 975670886
DATE: 15 Jan 19 12:11:44 GMT
TRANSACTION REF: 50-1901-29870
SERVED BY: Nash
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050007 :G:065 1 £350.00
ARTHUR ITI BLACK CALF
FIT: G / SIZE: 6.5 / SIZE: 65
050169:0:060 1 £60.00
SHOE FILLERS-CEDARWOOD AO610CHY
FIT: SIZE / FIT: 0 / FIT: . / SIZE: 60
TOTAL
SUB TOTAL £341.67
VAT £68.33
TOTAL £410.00
TENDER
AMEX £410.00
Thank you for your custon
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Google Vision
Chearey Shoes Ltd
London
Jermyn Street
21 Jermyn St
Tel: 020 7287 2996
VAT #: 975670886
DATE: 15 Jan 19 12:11:44 GMT
TRANSACTION REF: 50-1901-29870
SERVED BY: Nash
Sold
050007:G:065
£350.00
ARTHUR III BLACK CALF
FIT: G SIZE: 6.5 SIZE: 65
£60.00
050169:0:060
SHOE FILLERS-CEDARWOOD A0610CHY
FIT: SIZE FIT: 0/ FIT: . SIZE: 60
TOTAL
SUB TOTAL
VAT
TOTAL
£341.67
£68.33
£410.00
TENDER
AMEX
£410.00
Thank you for your custom
Interestingly both failed to recognize the n