OCR for Scanned Receipts — Extract Text from Receipt Photos

Keeping track of receipts for expenses and taxes is tedious. Photographing receipts is the easy part — turning those photos into usable text for spreadsheets, accounting software, or expense reports is where most people get stuck.

Our OCR tool uses Tesseract.js to extract text from receipt images directly in your browser. Upload a photo of any receipt and get the vendor name, date, items, amounts, and totals as plain text you can copy into your expense tracker.

Manual data entry from receipts is time-consuming and error-prone. Small business owners, freelancers, and employees filing expense reports spend hours each month typing receipt information into spreadsheets — often introducing errors. OCR eliminates the typing step entirely.

For tax purposes, the IRS and most tax authorities accept digital records as proof of expenses. Having receipt text in a searchable format makes finding specific deductions during tax season dramatically faster. Instead of shuffling through a shoebox of paper receipts, you search a spreadsheet.

Freelancers and contractors should process receipts immediately. Receipt paper fades over time, and thermal paper (the kind most registers use) can become completely unreadable within a year. OCR the receipt when you get it, keep the text, and you have a permanent record.