Tesseract Receipt Tracker#

Workflow#

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

2. Setup tesseract: text

   exec pip install tesseract
   
   

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

3. Extract Text: 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.