These days for OCR I think you can just download a free vision model from Hugginface and run it locally and it would work. I remember doing that in the recent past.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM TRS-80 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I am very pleased to announce that I have switched careers and should no > longer have to travel all the time, so now I can get back to working on > many projects I have wanted to since years now. :) > > One of those is dealing with the tedium of paper receipts in a more > automated way. > > I have been looking for some kind of receipt OCR for years now. I even > played with some of the F/LOSS OCR tools which are available, but even > there it seems to me you have to tweak them to get good results I think. > Or maybe I was just bad at it. :D Anyway at some point I realized the > best way might just be to pay someone to figure out all those fiddly > details. > > Now it turns out I didn't even need to pay any money after all! Anyway, > I'm just trying to illustrate my thought process here. > > So finally I stumbled across this Veryfi API. I am sure there are > others but so far I found this works very well and very accurately. I > have been really happpy with it. > > You can get up to 100 API calls per month for free with a developer > account (which I was able to obtain without any trouble). And that is > enough for my personal needs. > > I thought others might find this interesting, so I wanted to share it > with the list. I would encourage you to make a developer account (you > can even get a 2 week free trial I think first) and just upload some > recipts via their web interface, and see how accurate it is for you. > > I have no affiliation with them, just been looking for something like > this for years. > > Now, I prefer to work in Emacs Lisp (rather than Python) so of course > the next thing was writing a front-end to this API in Emacs. :) I > realize less of you are probably interested in that, but I thought I > would mention it anyway. It has been working flawless for me, I just > need to write a README and publish it. Maybe if there was some interest > it might motivate me to do so, sooner. > > -- > Cheers, > TRS-80 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/87frft89lc.fsf%40isnotmyreal.name > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhN1BurF0Hwg5fBykUrgz%3D_-i1E9Lv0qhKzREvyND-NCWw%40mail.gmail.com.
