Receipt Scanner — Receipt OCR to Extract Receipt Data Online

OCR reads every line of text from the photo, then a heuristic extractor looks for dates (multiple format patterns), money amounts (with currency symbols and decimals), tax keywords (VAT, TAX, GST, sales tax) and line items (lines ending in a money pattern). The largest amount near a "total" keyword is treated as the receipt total.

Vendor (first non-empty line, usually the store name), dates (every date pattern found), total (best guess), tax amount, currency (detected from symbols or printed currency codes), and a list of line items with descriptions and amounts. Output is JSON-ready for bookkeeping, expense reports or CRM imports.

Yes — the same field-extraction logic applies to both. Itemised invoices with line descriptions and amounts produce richer item lists; thermal-printed receipts work too, though stretched/faded thermal paper photographs can lose accuracy.

Common causes: the receipt was photographed at an angle (so OCR misreads numbers as letters), the total line uses a non-English word like "TOTAL" written in a different language, or the printed receipt has faded thermal text. Re-take the photo straight-on with good lighting and the OCR should pick it up.

The extractor recognises USD ($), EUR (€), GBP (£), JPY (¥), INR (₹), KRW (₩), ILS (₪), VND (₫) and THB (฿) from currency symbols, and printed currency codes such as CHF, CAD, AUD, SGD or AED, in the receipt text. The numeric values themselves are not converted — the user (or downstream system) should apply exchange rates if needed.

Yes — download the JSON and pipe it into QuickBooks, Xero, Concur or a custom expense API. The structure is stable: vendor, dates[], total, tax, currency, items[{description, amount}]. Build a small mapping script and you have automated receipt entry.

Yes — to our OCR service, where it is retained temporarily for processing and result delivery, then removed under our Security policy — unless you explicitly share a result, which keeps it at a public link anyone who has it can open without automatic expiration while Pixoate provides the sharing service. We do not use receipts for training. For very sensitive expense reports (private investigations, journalism), consider running OCR locally.

Preview the structured JSON and download the unbranded standard output without signup. Free use is subject to fair use; Premium supports larger batches and larger uploads.

Use the Receipt language picker in the Source panel to select the language the receipt is actually printed in. Changing it clears the previous result, so press Extract receipt again and the vendor names, dates and totals are read against the correct character set and decimal formatting instead of being misparsed as English.

Yes — OCR is tuned per language, so a French or German receipt read with the language set to English can garble accented vendor names and misread comma-decimal totals. Match the Receipt language setting to the printed language and use a sharp, well-lit, straight-on photo for the most accurate vendor, date and total extraction.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 receipts on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every receipt is processed with the same settings before you download one spreadsheet — a row per receipt. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 receipts on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking scan or photo gets refused.

Accuracy tracks the source image more than any setting. Shoot or scan straight on rather than at an angle, get even light with no shadow falling across the page, and fill the frame with the document. Set the language before you run it — OCR guessing the wrong alphabet is the usual cause of output that looks like nonsense. Always read the result before you rely on it.

Receipt Extractor supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Receipt Extractor runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.

A single receipt downloads as JSON. Batch mode, a Premium feature, builds one spreadsheet with a row per receipt and the columns File, Vendor, Date, Total, Tax and Currency, without line items. For a receipt table you can edit cell by cell, use Image to Excel.

You do not need a receipt scanner app or a hardware scanner. Open Receipt Extractor in your phone's browser, photograph the receipt or choose a PDF, upload it and run the extraction. The page works the same on a computer, and nothing needs installing or updating.

Pixoate offers a developer API with an extraction endpoint for receipts, business cards, tables and handwriting, metered in credits and available on eligible plans. The Receipt Extractor on this page is the web tool, where you review the fields before you copy or download them.

Yes. The upload accepts a PDF as well as images, so an emailed receipt or e-invoice can go straight in, up to 10 pages. Each file is read as one receipt, so a long statement with many receipts is better split first.

Only the main receipt in the photo is read. To capture each one, photograph them separately and run them one at a time, or add them to a batch so each file becomes its own row in one spreadsheet.

It is built for printed receipts. Handwritten amounts and names are unreliable, and a wrong digit changes a total. Use Handwriting OCR to read the writing, then check every value yourself against the paper.