Scan receipts and documents — extract text, detect line items, and track expenses with AI-powered OCR.
Cloud-Powered Text Extraction
Convert any photo, document scan, or receipt into searchable digital text with enterprise-grade accuracy.
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Yes. Unlike most other Tools-Hut tools, this one is not browser-local — your receipt image is uploaded over an encrypted connection to AWS Textract and Rekognition for OCR and analysis. It's processed immediately and not stored beyond the session, and never used for training or analytics. If a receipt shows a payment card number, mask or crop it before uploading if you'd rather not send it at all.
The scanner can read printed receipts, invoices, and documents in Latin-script languages including English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. It handles varied fonts, standard receipt widths, and common store layouts. Handwritten text has limited accuracy in automated OCR.
Yes. After scanning, the extracted text can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet or expense management tool. Logged-in features coming soon include automatic line-item categorisation and one-click CSV export for expense reporting workflows.
Receipt images are processed using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the server side. The image is pre-processed (deskew, contrast enhancement, binarization) before text extraction. Structured fields — merchant name, date, line items, subtotal, tax, and total — are then identified using a trained extraction model.
Expense categories (Food, Transport, Shopping, Healthcare, Entertainment, etc.) are automatically assigned based on the merchant name and item descriptions. This uses a combination of keyword matching and a classification model trained on common receipt patterns across major retail, restaurant, and service categories.
OCR accuracy is highest on: printed receipts (vs handwritten), high-contrast backgrounds, straight/flat images (not crumpled), and good lighting with no glare. Thermal paper fading significantly reduces accuracy. For best results, photograph receipts immediately after receiving them under natural or bright artificial light.
Receipt images are uploaded to our servers for OCR processing. They are processed immediately and not stored beyond the session. No receipt data is used for training or analytics. Payment card numbers, if visible on receipts, are automatically masked in the output. For highly sensitive receipts, consider blacking out card or account numbers before uploading.
