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How to Effortlessly Extract Receipt Information with OCR and GPT-4o mini
Utilize OCR and the powerful GPT-4o mini model to perform information extraction on receipts
In this article, I will show you how to extract information from receipts, giving a simple image of the receipt. First, we will utilize OCR to extract information from the receipt. This information will then be sent to the GPT-4o mini model for information extraction. My goal for this project is to develop an application that can help split a bill among friends simply by taking an image of the receipt and selecting which items belong to which person. This article will focus on the information extraction part of this goal.
The application developed in this article can be accessed on Google Play.
Motivation
It’s a hassle to go through receipts and calculate everyone’s share, for example, after visiting restaurants. I have encountered this problem numerous times and therefore wanted a solution to make the process more effective. I therefore thought of the BillSplitter application. The idea is that a user can take an image of a receipt, the application will utilize OCR and language models to process the receipt and extract each item and the corresponding price, and the user can simply select…
