Tesseract Receipt Tracker

Workflow

1. Acquire Image: read tool on image path (supports jpg, png, pdf first page).

2. Setup tesseract:

   exec pip install tesseract
   

   Tesseract: exec sudo apt update && sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

3. Extract Text:

   # Variant command for tesseract
   exec tesseract --image_path image.jpg --output ocr.txt
   

4. Parse Fields: exec python3 scripts/parse_receipt.py ocr.txt

5. Log Data: Write to expense_log.csv or json.

Post-Processing

Use regex/scripts for receipt-specific fields: total, subtotals, taxes, odometer, dates.

scripts/

Custom parsers for structured extraction.

references/

Field mappings and examples.