Text recognition on receipts

[ehferguson (Edward Ferguson)]

As others have mentioned, purchases from supermarkets include a wide variety of goods. My idea is that once a receipt is added, the app reads the receipt and uses the information to categorise the spending on a more granular level. I know it’s possible technically but would others find it useful and are there any data protection limitations?

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

You’re looking at 3 features in 1 here -

for the comments of Mondo’s Head of Design on categories, take a look at this post

https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-multi-category-transactions/649/14?u=alexs

for Hugo’s comments on splitting single transactions into multiple categories, see this post

https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-multi-category-transactions/649/14?u=alexs

& for the discussion about converting the receipt’s text (using Optical Character Recognition) and capturing it in the app, there’s this post

Better receipt image handling

Through tapping around, I can’t seem to find a way to view an uncropped receipt image once uploaded. A square image doesn’t do me much good when most receipts are long and the image capture flow makes no indication that it will be cropped in this way. It was also rather difficult to find how to delete an image, with no feedback on touches (like how iOS app icons dim on touch down), the image doesn’t feel it can be interacted with at all. On the subject of this, I don’t feel like the large jiggl…

These are popular requests and my guess is that these features will get more attention after the launch of goals / targets, which will hopefully be any day now…

@alexs

Tom also talks about new features that will be released in the next few weeks (trip reports which have just become available & budgeting). (9:10)

There might even be some changes to categories when that next update is released.