Receipt Scanner

Digitize receipts into structured data.

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The receipt scanner turns a photo or scan of a receipt into clean text and structured data you can actually use. Upload a crumpled paper receipt, a phone snapshot, or a PDF, and the premium AI engine reads the merchant, date, line items, and totals, then exports them as JSON or CSV. Instead of squinting at faded thermal paper and typing numbers into a spreadsheet, you get a digitized record ready for expenses and bookkeeping.

It is made for freelancers, small businesses, and accounting teams who deal with stacks of receipts at tax time or the end of every month. The receipt OCR handles the awkward layouts, tiny fonts, and uneven lighting that come with real-world receipts, and it works across 100+ recognition languages so receipts from trips and overseas vendors are no obstacle.

ocr.chat shows the recognized text beside your original with low-confidence fields flagged, so you can trust the numbers before they hit your books. There is no signup to try, files are deleted automatically, and nothing is ever sold or shared. The structured export is part of the premium AI tier; free recognition covers printed documents, and paid plans from $5/mo add more pages, batch uploads for whole stacks, and a REST API.

How to receipt scanner

1
Upload the receipt
Drag in a photo, paste a screenshot, or select a PDF of one or more receipts.
2
Let the AI engine read it
The premium receipt OCR engine extracts the merchant, date, line items, taxes, and total.
3
Review the fields
Check the structured data and transcribed text against your original, with uncertain values flagged for a quick edit.
4
Export to JSON or CSV
Download the structured data as JSON or CSV, or copy the text, ready for your expense report or accounting tool.

Common uses

  • Freelancers compiling deductible business expenses for quarterly and year-end taxes.
  • Small businesses digitizing receipt stacks into a spreadsheet for monthly bookkeeping.
  • Accounting teams importing structured receipt data into expense and ledger software.
  • Travelers turning trip receipts, including foreign-language ones, into a single expense report.
  • Managers reconciling employee reimbursement claims against scanned proof of purchase.
  • Anyone replacing a shoebox of paper receipts with searchable, exportable records.

Frequently asked questions

The premium AI engine is built for the messy fonts and faded thermal paper of real receipts. Recognized text and fields are shown next to your original, and low-confidence values are flagged so you can fix anything before exporting.

It returns the full transcribed text plus structured fields such as merchant, date, line items, tax, and total, exportable as JSON or CSV.

The structured export captures common receipt fields including vendor, date, individual line items with amounts, subtotal, tax, and grand total, so you can map them into your accounting workflow.

Yes. Download as CSV to open directly in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets, or use the JSON export to import into accounting and expense tools.

Yes. Recognition covers 100+ languages, so receipts from trips and international vendors are read just like local ones.

Yes. Each purchased item is returned as its own entry with its description and amount, alongside the subtotal, tax, and grand total, so the receipt is broken out rather than reduced to a single figure.

It pulls the subtotal, tax, and final total as separate numeric fields and reads the transaction date, so the values you need for an expense report are already split out.

Yes. It captures the amounts and currency as printed on the receipt, so receipts in dollars, euros, pounds, or other currencies come through with their figures intact for your report.

Yes. Paid plans support batch uploads, so you can process a stack of receipts or a multi-page PDF in one go instead of one at a time, and the REST API can automate the intake.

You can upload common image types and multi-page PDFs. Credits are counted per page, so a longer PDF or a larger batch simply uses more credits from your plan.

Receipts are processed only to produce the text and data, then deleted automatically. We never sell or share your documents.

You can try it with no signup, and a free account includes a monthly page bucket. The structured receipt export uses the premium AI tier; paid plans from $5/mo add more pages, batch uploads, and API access.

Use this via the API

Run this tool programmatically with a single POST. Authenticate with the API token from your account page.

curl -X POST https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -F "file=@your-file.png" \
  -F "tool=receipt-scanner"

Files of 5 pages or fewer return the result inline; otherwise poll the job, then download it as json:

curl -L "https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/JOB_UUID/download/?format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" -o result.json
Read the API docs →

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