Expense Receipt OCR

Digitize a Receipt for Expense Reports

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Extracts full text plus a best-effort detected total line.

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Processed locally in your browser — never uploaded

Extracts all text from a receipt photo and attempts a simple "Total" line detection — this is basic text extraction with a light heuristic, not full structured receipt parsing (line items, tax breakdown, etc.). Runs entirely in your browser, no upload.

Features

  • Privacy-first processing with automatic deletion
  • Real-time, instant results
  • 100% free, no sign-up required
  • Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
  • No installation needed

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About Expense Receipt OCR

Expense tracking and reimbursement often start with a pile of paper receipts that need their content captured digitally. This tool recognizes all text on a receipt photo using a real OCR engine (Tesseract, compiled to WebAssembly, running entirely in your browser) and additionally scans the result for a line matching a common "Total" pattern.

The total-detection is a lightweight pattern match — it looks through the recognized text (starting from the bottom, where totals typically appear) for a line containing the word "total" followed by a number, and surfaces that number prominently above the full text.

This is honestly framed as basic text extraction with a helpful heuristic, not full structured receipt parsing — it doesn't separate individual line items, tax breakdowns, or merchant details into distinct fields the way a dedicated receipt-parsing service would.

Everything runs locally: your receipt content, which can include purchase details you'd rather not send to a third-party server, never leaves your browser during recognition.

How it works

  1. Upload a receipt photo. Works on printed thermal or paper receipts.
  2. Text is recognized locally. The full receipt text is extracted via OCR.
  3. Review the detected total. A simple pattern match highlights the total line, if found.

Examples

Digitizing a store receipt

Input

photo of a printed receipt

Output

full text plus a detected total amount

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