Tesseract Receipt Tracker

Workflow

1. Acquire Image: read tool on image path (supports jpg, png, pdf first page).

1. Setup tesseract:

```

exec pip install tesseract

```

Tesseract: exec sudo apt update && sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

1. Extract Text:

```

# Variant command for tesseract

exec tesseract --image_path image.jpg --output ocr.txt

```

1. Parse Fields: exec python3 scripts/parse_receipt.py ocr.txt

1. Log Data: Write to expense_log.csv or json.

Post-Processing

Use regex/scripts for receipt-specific fields: total, subtotals, taxes, odometer, dates.

scripts/

Custom parsers for structured extraction.

references/

Field mappings and examples.