Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018? by _ah on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:06AM (#17601104)

A full-duplex scanner is worth the investment. I've configured mine so that it automatically drops the file on a network share for storage.

Receipts I ignore (the credit card transaction is caught by my online budgeting service). Random bills / statements get uploaded to Google Drive. There's a "silent OCR" that runs on the PDFs... you can't access the text directly or by API, but if you search for anything it will appear with high accuracy.

I've quit trying to organize anything since everything is easily findable.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018? by fideaux64 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:06PM (#17602316)

I adore my Fujitsu. What OCR software are you using?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018? by _ah on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:56PM (#17603915)

That's the point... I don't use any. Google just runs its OCR magic on uploaded docs and makes them searchable.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018? by copperx on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:45PM (#17604289)

I didn't know that. I don't need to pay for Evernote anymore!

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