Receipt OCR Tracker#

Quick Start#

1. Camera snap receipt → save ~/storage/downloads/photo.jpg
2. cd scripts
3. python3 ocr.py ~/storage/downloads/photo.jpg
4. expenses.csv ready.

Examples#

Grocery receipt: Input: Milk $5.99, Bread $12.50, Total $19.24 (GST $1.75) Output CSV: date,item,amount,gst,total 2026-03-28,Milk,5.99,0.60,6.59 2026-03-28,Bread,12.50,1.25,13.75 Total,,19.24,1.85,21.09

Business lunch: Parses subtotal, tax, tip, total.

Parsing Rules#

• Amount: $(\d+.\d{2})
• Date: \d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{4}
• Item: Line before amount.
• Total: Last $ line.

85% accuracy blurry OK.

Usage Workflow#

User: "OCR this receipt photo.jpg" Agent: exec ocr.py → CSV attach MD summary.

Troubleshooting#

No tesseract: pkg install tesseract Blurry: Resnap high light. No PIL: pkg install python-pillow