With receipts being essential for the work and life, it's imperative to keep track of the receipts. However, it can be really a daunting task since all the receipts are printed or digital, and there is no denial of this fact. Besides, entering receipts information manually can also result in potential errors. Using receipt OCR software can dramatically save your time and effort in such scenarios.
Here's our round-up of the best receipt OCR apps. Read all about the features they offer and pick the best-suited receipt OCR software that can help you in tracking expenses.
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Since we are in the age of increasingly technological advancement, it doesn’t have to worry about that anymore.
Nowadays, almost all receipt OCR software has been adapted OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to handle receipt data extraction issues. With this, receipt OCR performs its conversion with almost 99% accuracy. With the help of OCR technology, receipts data and text can be read and recognized intelligently.
Receipt OCR technology brings with it a number of benefits, all of which serve to make your life easier.
Some receipt OCR apps are so accurate that reduce personal errors. Every single receipt is processed with 99% accuracy.
Consider of entering receipts data one by one manually, you can save your time by using receipt OCR software. Besides, it can help to reduce the use of paper storage, thus saving space.
Receipt OCR can keep your transaction data secure and private. All receipts can be stored on a digital device.
Receipts has to be edited most of the time, particularly when some information like category, location, uses must be updated. Receipt OCR can convert receipt data to many editable formats such as Word, Excel etc.
Although most of the receipt OCR apps work friendly with scanned documents, there are extremely few receipt OCR apps that can handle handwritten receipt gracefully.
Enolsoft PDF Converter OCR is a program that helps you easily convert native and scanned PDF or images including receipt and invoice to Word, Excel, PPT, Keynote, Pages, HTML, EPUB, Text, Images and etc. In addition, with batch receipt OCR conversion support, users are allowed to deal with a pile of receipt at one time.
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Below is how you can process receipt OCR
The first thing that you need to do is make a download and then install this software on your device. Next, you can follow these steps to do receipt OCR.
Click the + button to import the digital receipt or paper receipt captured by phone camera. Or you can simply drag the target receipt to the main interface. Batch conversion is supported that you can add as many as receipt files you want at the same time.
When you finish the whole settings, hit the Convert button to begin the receipt OCR. After a few seconds, you can view the created receipt files.
Adobe Acrobat DC allows users to create, edit, convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, also supports receipt OCR. Enjoying the most powerful features of OCR software, you can extract data from receipt and convert scanned receipt documents into editable format effortlessly.
Follow the guide below for how receipt OCR works in Adobe Acrobat DC
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Microsoft OneNote is Windows inbuilt program for note taking. Surprisingly, OneNote has an additional OCR feature. If you are a Windows user, you can simply do receipt OCR without paying a cent with this app.
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2. Right-click on the receipt file, then you will get an option called Copy Text from Picture. Sometimes the option may not immediately appear on the menu, just wait for the option to pop up
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Simple OCR is basic and one of the very few receipt OCR software that allows users to convert handwritten receipt to editable text and it comes with an in-built spell checker. If you have a lot of handwritten receipt documents and you want to do receipt OCR, then Simple OCR would be your best option.
Here is how to do receipt OCR with Simple OCR
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CamScanner is probably the most famous mobile receipt OCR app that can use your phone camera to OCR receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc.
A step-by-step guide on how to do receipt OCR using the CamScanner app
icon. Then choose Recognize full page or Select an area for receipt OCR
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Google Vision API is a comprehensive receipt OCR API for developers to recognize, process and analysis image including TIFF, GIF, PDF, JPG and GIF. It can detect more than 50 different languages. On top of that, it supports face recognition, image labeling and landmark detection. Given a receipt that contains brand logos, it could identify what the brand belongs to. The best thing about Google Cloud Vision API is that it works well with handwriting receipts.
Taggun is a unique receipt OCR API, aiming at scanning receipt and invoices. Apart from that it can recognize texts from image, PDF, even URL, it also recognizes the structure of the receipt and processes accurate data like Total Amount, Tax Amount, Merchant Name etc.
Microsoft Computer Vision is a cloud-based receipt OCR API designed for developers with access to use machine learning for processing image receipts and outputting information, and other uses like generating receipt thumbnails, describing the content of receipt using AI. However, its main function is to pick objects out of a receipt and classify them in general.
For receipt OCR, we can also use an open-source command line library called Tesseract. It’s the definitive free receipt OCR engine developed by Google. It is written in C/C++. Sometimes Tesseract can accurately recognize the handwritten text on the receipt.
In this article, we offer you 5 practical ways for receipt OCR. For users using different systems, you may choose a receipt OCR app based on your device (Mac or Windows, iPhone or Android). Among all the tools mentioned above, Enolsoft PDF Converter OCR is the most suitable one for most Mac users.
Bryan is the Chief Writer at Enolsoft for 13 years. He doesn’t just document software, he is more like a power user that bridges the gap between complex file management systems and the real people who use them, showing users the easiest way to turn digital chaos into streamlined efficiency.
