Receipt OCR
Definition
Receipt OCR is the extraction of structured data (merchant, date, total, tax, payment method, and itemized lines) from photographed or scanned retail receipts. Receipts are harder than invoices because they are printed on thermal paper, often crumpled, and use compressed merchant-specific layouts. A working receipt-OCR pipeline combines image cleanup, text recognition, and merchant-pattern matching.
Why it matters
Receipts are the source documents for expense reports and reimbursements, and tax authorities can request them years after the fact. Capturing them at the moment of purchase, with structured fields, eliminates the shoebox-of-receipts cleanup at year-end.
How DocuClipper handles it
DocuClipper extracts merchant, date, total, tax, and line items from receipts and pushes them into your bookkeeping system. See receipt data extraction.
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