[amelius]

> Need to digitize documents, receipts or invoices but too lazy to code? Head over to Nanonets and build OCR models for free!

I think that once you go down the path of OCR'ing your own invoices, you better start a company around it.

[BrandiATMuhkuh]

That's correct. I'm follow this topic since about 10 years now. It seems to be an important issues. But super hard problem. I could not find any close to relatable solution.

Building a company that does only exactly one things, offer an API that takes a receipt as input and returns key/value, is enough.

[ttul]

My company has been using Receipt Bank for a few years. God knows what technology they use internally - I don’t care. They have a sweet app that scans receipts and then sucks them into a beautiful back end interface that the book keepers use to align statement items with their backup. Yes, this is a solved problems.

[TrackerFF]

Gonna be honest, I think it's a dead-end. The solution IMO will come from the supply side; Easier to get receipts digitally from the store / vendor / seller, than to spend all this effort on converting physical receipts to digital.

Sure - there's good retro usage, I'd rather push for sellers to offer you digital receipts.

In fact, I already get that from my local supermarket. My bank card is registered to their app, so every time I swipe my card or scan my app (when paying with cash), I get a receipt on the app, which I can export.

I remember back in college, over 10 years ago, this was a very hot topic. Receipt management was one of those entrepreneur ideas that would always pop up.

[choward]

> My bank card is registered to their app, so every time I swipe my card or scan my app (when paying with cash), I get a receipt on the app

That's great but why does this need to be an app? Why can't it be sent via email or have a website I can log into? I'm not downloading an app for every company I want to do business with.

[LoSboccacc]

> Easier to get receipts digitally

if the need was there you'd already get a qr code to a shortlink to a rest api to fetch the data. existing tech, well defined behavior, augments existing data transfer without being incompatible with the current clients (the squishy humans)

[jasonjayr]

Arn't most of the major retailers already sending the receipt line items to the CC processors? Once folks get more comfortable with realizing this is happening, Visa/Mastercard can start offering receipt organization through their card management apps.

[tastyminerals]

It is not as easy as it sounds. There are a lot of ppl who earn the living by doing the accounting for you and for that they use paper form. Most companies do use and are obliged by legislation to do accounting in paper form too. Paper is here to stay, for a while.

[amelius]

> Receipt management was one of those entrepreneur ideas that would always pop up.

Not surprising as it's one of the first things one runs into after starting a company.