Receipt OCR

Receipt OCR

Keep track of the changes and updates for the Receipt OCR API

Version 5

⚡️ Features and Changes (April 28th, 2025)

• ✨ ⚡ Expand the granularity of the category and sub_category output.

• ✨ New categories: energy, shopping , software

• ✨ New sub-categories:

  • food

    • delivery (Deliveroo, UberEats...)

  • transport

    • **public **(tram, rer, metro, underground, Bus...)

    • car_rental

    • micro_mobility (Short-term rentals, like scooters and bikes.. For further information, you can consult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromobility)

  • shopping

  • office_supplies (notebooks, pens, scissors, ...)

  • electronics (computer, printer, iPhone, cables, ...)

  • cultural (books, movies, music, ...)

  • groceries (food, cleaning, ...)

  • other

• ⚡ Significant Performance Improvement for Supplier Name Extraction: We've also significantly boosted the accuracy of supplier_name extraction in the Receipt API. We've achieved a 30-to-50% error rate reduction by developing and training a novel, domain-specific NLP model.

⚡️ Features and Changes (October 10th, 2024)

• 🐛 Fix category / subcategory consistency.

⚡️ Features and Changes (June 12th, 2024)

• 🚀 Extended latin alphabet support We released new models for our generic text detection and recognition pipeline. This release has increased the overall performances on all fields and supports extended latin alphabet characters:

  {'`', '¡', '¥', '¿', 'Á', 'Ã', 'Ä', 'Å', 'Æ', 'Ì', 'Í', 'Ð', 'Ñ', 'Ò', 'Ó', 'Õ', 'Ö', 'Ø', 'Ú', 'Ü', 'Ý', 'Þ', 'ß', 'á', 'ã', 'ä', 'å', 'æ', 'ì', 'í', 'ð', 'ñ', 'ò', 'ó', 'õ', 'ö', 'ø', 'ú', 'ü', 'ý', 'þ', 'Ā', 'ā', 'Ă', 'ă', 'Ą', 'ą', 'Ć', 'ć', 'Č', 'č', 'Ď', 'ď', 'Đ', 'đ', 'Ē', 'ē', 'Ė', 'ė', 'Ę', 'ę', 'Ě', 'ě', 'Ğ', 'ğ', 'Ģ', 'ģ', 'Ī', 'ī', 'Į', 'į', 'İ', 'ı', 'Ķ', 'ķ', 'Ĺ', 'ĺ', 'Ļ', 'ļ', 'Ľ', 'ľ', 'Ł', 'ł', 'Ń', 'ń', 'Ņ', 'ņ', 'Ň', 'ň', 'Ō', 'ō', 'Ő', 'ő', 'Ŕ', 'ŕ', 'Ŗ', 'ŗ', 'Ř', 'ř', 'Ś', 'ś', 'Ş', 'ş', 'Š', 'š', 'Ť', 'ť', 'Ū', 'ū', 'Ů', 'ů', 'Ű', 'ű', 'Ų', 'ų', 'Ź', 'ź', 'Ż', 'ż', 'Ž', 'ž', 'Ș', 'ș', 'Ț', 'ț', 'ẞ', '₿'}

• 🔥 Strong improvement on taxes for multi-taxes extraction The main focus of this release was to improve drastically the multi-taxes extraction. We measured a decrease in error rates of 56% on taxes for multi-taxes extraction.

⚡️ Features and Changes (May 16th, 2024)

• 🔥 Strong improvement on supplier_name and supplier_address The main focus of this release was to improve drastically the supplier information extraction. We measured a decrease in error rates of:

  • 27% for supplier_name

  • 14% for supplier_address

• ✨ New field: receipt_number The API is now extracting the receipt number, returned as a string. It is an identifier assigned to some receipt, analogous to the invoice number.

⚡️ Features and Changes (September 1st, 2023)

• New feature: Raw Value available for Supplier Name. The Raw Value extracts the name without post processing nor formatting. It can thus be different from the Value.

  

⚡️ Features and Changes (April 06, 2023)

• New fields extracted in the response scheme:

  • Supplier Address

  • Supplier Company Registrations

  • Supplier Phone Number

• Line items extraction. Line items are returned as a list in the json response. Each item includes:

  • a description

  • a quantity

  • a unit price

  • a total amount

• Renaming of fields in the json response for more clarity:

  • supplier -> supplier_name

Version 4

⚡️ Features and Changes (January 03, 2023)

• New fields extracted in the response scheme:

  • subcategory, with the following options: plane, train, taxi, restaurant, shopping

  • category has a new option: telecom

  • document_type, with the following options: "EXPENSE RECEIPT" or "CREDIT CARD RECEIPT"

⚡️ Features and Changes (October 03, 2022)

• Handwritten text recognition for total amount and tips

• Improved extraction performances for each field

• Update in response scheme with new extracted fields:

  • Total excluding taxes

  • Tip

  • Total amount (formerly total_incl)

  • Tax base is now extracted on each tax item

• Detection of 44 currencies: EUR, GBP, CHF, USD, CAD, CZK, NOK, SEK, HUF, RON, PLN, RUB, DKK, XPF, TRY, MXN, COP, BRL, CLP, ARS, AED, SAR, QAR, ILS, OMR, CNY, PHP, SGD, HKD, JPY, MYR, KRW, TWD, THB, VND, IMR, IDR, DZD, MAD, TND, XOF, ZAR, XAF, AUD

Version 3

⚡️ Features and Changes (March 24, 2022)

• Update in response scheme with new orientation information available

• Update in polygon coordinates and format

⚡️ Features and Changes (Oct 19, 2020)

• Supports the extraction and recognition of tax codes (VAT, HST, GST, City Tax, State tax).

Version 2

Receipt V2 API Performance Update

For increased performance in the extraction of your fields and result, please upgrade to v3 as this version is currently not maintained.

⚡️ Features and Changes (Jan 13, 2020)

• Improvement in the extraction of date field

• Addition of merchant name to extracted fields

Version 1

Receipt V1 API Depreciation

Support for the receipt V1 API is deprecated. Please use v3 instead.

⚡️ Feature: First Release (August 6, 2019)

Extracted fields:

• Expense category

• Locale & currency

• Receipt date

• Receipt time

• Supplier

• Taxes details

• Total amount