Receipts Scanner App

[Kahlil Algya]

Iwould like to ask a feature. It would be nice that the android apps has a scanner for physical receipts, it would make it easier for us to organize taxes and personal finances. I suppose that it is a function similar to the contacts card scanning that comes with evernote.

There's no dedicated function for receipts, but many people do use the Evernote Android app for just this purpose. The trick is to make sure that Evernote is set to photograph a document. Start a new note as a Camera note, or just create a text note, click the paper clip at top, and select Take a Photo. Be sure the receipt is on a dark background. Once the camera is running, in the top right there's an icon. If it's a mountain/landscape icon, tap it to turn it into a document icon. The document icon indicates that Evernote is in document-photographing mode, and will attempt to crop the image to include just the receipt. As usual, you can check the results before saving; select Save as Document. After the note is synced, in a short time the contents of the receipt will be indexed, so that you can search for the name of a business and (hopefully) find all the receipts from that business. Hope this helps.

For more advanced scans I use an independent scanner app (Scanner Pro) and send the scan to EN. It allows for better influencing of the scan, and has its own OCRing which will be embedded into the pdf.

A search for the tags "receipt" and "vendor-walmart" will produce probably nearly exactly the same result as searching for tag "receipt" and keyword Walmart. But the later needs one tag less, and it keeps the tagging database smaller because the vendors are always mentioned on each document they issue. Thus the OCR can do most of the job for you.

Tags are IMHO very good when they add information not contained in the document, like the tag "family" does for documents related to family members. Here the name alone will not do the job. Or they can be used to create subgroups of notes, something people often use notebooks for but which in EN should be done by tagging.

With pdf scans, I mainly rely on my own OCRing, done by the tools that come with the Fujitsu ix500 (Abby Fine Reader) and with the ScannerPro app I use on my iPhone. Both OCR pretty reliably, including receipts. Because I scan directly, the thermopaper is still crisp and sharp when I do the scan. And if the initial scan is not so good, I can influence the brightness and contrast right away, always leading to good pdfs that the OCR Software can use.

Another positive aspect of this solution is that I can pick the language for the OCR. Because most of my scans are in German, quality rises massively if I tell the software to use German dictionaries. I do not know whether the server based solution by EN tries to identify the language of a document - which in my case could not be done by my system preference, because I have stuff in English, Spanish and Portugese as well.

If you go for receipts, you can elaborate your own system. As I mentioned before, I just tag it with the year (When), the tag "invoice" (What) and if deductible with "tax" (What for). All the rest I do by keyword search, combining tags with content. If I want to find all tax deductible receipts from Amazon 2019, I search for the tags 2019 and tax, combines with the search keyword Amazon.

In my iPhone scanner app, I can predefine workflows. These add the tags above automatically (current year, tag invoice and tag tax). So when I do a scan knowing this is a receipt I will use later in my tax declaration, I use the workflow "EN Tax", which automatically creates a new note in EN with the 3 tags above, in the right notebook, titled with the scans file title. I think this is very efficient.

Using too many tags can create a lot of work without really giving better results. I think something in between 3 and 8 tags per note work for a good level of tag creation effort vs. search quality.

Having a receipt scanner can make quick work of filing your expenses. Whether you're managing finances for your small business or filing taxes, you have to know where your money is being spent. Receipts from your purchases are likely to get lost in a sea of documents and miscellaneous papers. Physical documents can get damaged or destroyed.

Converting your printed receipts and documents into digital files can be the solution to these problems, and a receipt scanner is the perfect tool for the job. Some receipt scanners include online tools that allow you to consolidate your receipts and access them from anywhere.

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Scanning receipts for expense reports is arguably one of the least enjoyable tasks for any professional. People usually want to complete this task as quickly as possible, and a lightning-fast receipt scanner can help with that. Some scanners can take a snapshot of your documents as quickly as 7.5 seconds flat. This comes in handy when you need to scan several receipts at once.

Finally, make sure your scanner supports your entire workflow after you scan your receipts. Will you be uploading them to cloud storage? Will you be emailing them to another individual? Your receipt scanner should be able to quickly export your scanned documents with ease.

One of the best features of this scanner is its 2-in-1 capability and portability. It functions as a desktop scanner, but it also has a detachable wand you can use to scan. This wand is the perfect size to take with you on the go, and it even comes with its own carrying case.

The Epson Workforce ES-50 is a lightweight, portable scanner that allows you to scan receipts and other documents. It has auto-size detection to determine if you're scanning a small receipt or a full-size document and saves it accordingly.

The Epson ES-50 scans a single page in just 5.5 seconds and uploads it directly to the online storage account included with the software. This receipt scanner works for both Windows and Mac computers so you can use it in an office with different operating systems.

We currently use Fujitsu fi-6800 series. Can anyone recommend alternatives suitable for handling those small and light documents, such as credit card slips and till receipts? We've had some success with Fujitsu Carrier Sheets, and sometimes photocopying the smaller documents to A4 and scanning those photocopies, but this is far from ideal and hurts average handling time at the batch processing stage!

The scanners were originally designed for scanning the tachographs from trucks driving around the UK (which is pretty flimsy paper). We have hundreds of these scanners out there scanning everything from receipts, business cards, credit cards as well as standard A4 paper scanning. The biggest consideration is volumes here as they are relatively small in specification in the big world of scanners. My suggestion would be to get in touch with your nearest Panasonic dealer and ask if you can have one 'on trial' for a few weeks and see how you get on.

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The QuickBooks receipt scanner uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to automatically organize and sort your receipts. This technology can scan and record the amount, date, and location of your transactions, and then sort it into the proper expense category.

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