Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items) (line-items.com)
Over the past 10 years, I have periodically tried (every ~3 years or so) to convert Receipt-Images to JSON. What particularly interested me were the line-items. It began with a Bachelor's project where we wanted to track prices by extracting product prices from line items. However, it was not feasible to ask users to type them all into our platform. I quickly realized this process was way too tedious. Only when taking a picture is all that is required, would such a platform work.
https://www.line-items.com is the standalone product that simply converts receipts to JSON. It's great for accountants but also for anyone building expense tracking tools.
If you want to talk to me personally, send me an email. You can find it on my profile.
Past Attempts:
- 2015: OpenCV + Bounding Boxes
- 2017: Azure Cognitive Services
- 2021: Amazon Textract
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 36.3 ms ] threadNo, I have not thought about open sourcing it yet.
I was always a fan of the idea of building a micro - SAAS (Do one thing and that well!) and thought this could be a great candidate.
I only launched it today. Let's see what will happen next :D
I know some accounting software have this feature.
I think adding more examples from different stores would be solid.
Good luck!
The main use cases are accounting software and expense trackers.
I know someone who is since years in the receipt to account-software business. But they hand craft receipt templates for each customer. Which is a slow and not very robust approach
https://line-items.com on the other hand "understand" the receipt and therefor can deal with any receipt.
Thanks for your suggesting regarding more examples. I'll add more soon. I had them in it already, but visually I didn't get it right :/ I'll try it again :)
My hunch is that the price point is out somewhere between X5-x10 (too high)
But I wish you all the very best with it.
Yes I know the price point is a bit high. There are a couple of optimization's I will do to improve on that.
This should then also improve the speed quite a bit.