I think that once you go down the path of OCR'ing your own invoices, you better start a company around it.
I think that once you go down the path of OCR'ing your own invoices, you better start a company around it.
Building a company that does only exactly one things, offer an API that takes a receipt as input and returns key/value, is enough.
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.
Not surprising as it's one of the first things one runs into after starting a company.
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)
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.