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Is there an API for getting reads?

I had an idea for my first mobile application, and I was thinking of doing it in HTML5 + JQuery Mobile. Key features:

  • to be able to photograph a receipt
  • digitize all the information.

I have never been involved in a mobile app before, and I'm not sure if this is possible. If the API is unavailable, how can I start my own receipt receipt? Thank you Please let me know if I'm stupid.

Edit: I found a service that allows me to use my application to take a picture (or send an image by email) of a receipt and extract the necessary information from it. http://www.proongo.com/b/receipt-reading.php . I'm not quite sure how to use this service, but tomorrow I will do more research and share with you what I find.

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I found an OCR API service with several different payroll business models called OCRAPISERVICE . They have several examples hosted on github using various mobile apps via PhoneGap. They have a free trial model that allows you to send 100 requests.

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I think you need to apply OCR for a software solution with supermarket receipt recognition. There are many open source OCR solutions such as Tesseract and others. However, they are focused on general OCR. Therefore, you need to use additional tools for recognizing receipts through the mobile application.

We recently worked on a web application to get confirmation. Here you can find some research details: http://rnd.azoft.com/applying-ocr-technology-receipt-recognition/

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In addition to Tesseract, all the big boys: Google, Microsoft and IBM now have their own OCR API offer. These APIs provide easy OCR scanning with text images with varying degrees of accuracy. I believe that Google Vision is the most accurate for photo receipts. You still have to extract data from the text with half the garbage.

If you need an API that returns field metadata, such as: total amount, tax amount, date and seller information, where applications can consume directly. Check out https://www.taggun.io . I specifically developed an API for this purpose.

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