Receipt OCR

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

Version 5

⚡️ 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

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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

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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

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