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Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items)

28 pointsby BrandiATMuhkuhover 1 year ago
Hi HN, I&#x27;m proud to show you that I&#x27;ve finally managed to create a Receipt-Image to JSON converter, including line-items!<p>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&#x27;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.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.line-items.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.line-items.com</a> is the standalone product that simply converts receipts to JSON. It&#x27;s great for accountants but also for anyone building expense tracking tools.<p>If you want to talk to me personally, send me an email. You can find it on my profile.<p>Past Attempts:<p>- 2015: OpenCV + Bounding Boxes<p>- 2017: Azure Cognitive Services<p>- 2021: Amazon Textract

6 comments

pushfooover 1 year ago
Would you be willing to add email-based sign-up? Some users, especially in Europe, may prefer it to using Google or GitHub accounts to log in.
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Bestoraover 1 year ago
Great product. What technology are you currently using? I&#x27;m searching a technology to solve the machine readability for PDF documents with a lot of technical tables with weird colspans and rowspans.
treebeard5440over 1 year ago
Pretty cool - have you thought of open-sourcing the project while keeping the SASS portion paid?
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Orasover 1 year ago
This looks brilliant. What’s the use case you have in mind?<p>I know some accounting software have this feature.<p>I think adding more examples from different stores would be solid.<p>Good luck!
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urbandw311erover 1 year ago
Great idea and love the site.<p>My hunch is that the price point is out somewhere between X5-x10 (too high)<p>But I wish you all the very best with it.
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KTibowover 1 year ago
I think a lot of people might end up just doing this with GPT-4V