Add Receipt Scanner Page for Automatic Expense Entry
📌 Issue Summary
Add a Receipt Scanner page that allows users to upload a receipt image and automatically extract key expense details such as amount, date, and category. The extracted data should then auto-fill the expense form to make adding transactions faster and easier.
✅ Expected Features
Upload or drag-and-drop receipt image
Preview uploaded receipt
Extract text from receipt using OCR (Tesseract.js)
Detect important information such as:
Amount
Date
Merchant (if possible)
Auto-fill the transaction form with detected values
🎯 Tasks to Complete
Create a new Receipt Scanner page UI
Add file upload / drag-and-drop area for receipt images
Display preview of uploaded image
Integrate Tesseract.js for OCR text extraction
Parse extracted text to identify amount and date
Auto-fill the expense entry form with detected values
Ensure UI matches the project styling
💡 Suggested Tech
Frontend implementation can be done using:
HTML – Upload UI and form
CSS – Styling and layout
JavaScript – OCR processing and form auto-fill
Tesseract.js – Browser-based OCR library
🚀 Expected Outcome
Users will be able to scan receipts and quickly add expenses, improving usability and making the expense tracking process much faster.
Add Receipt Scanner Page for Automatic Expense Entry
📌 Issue Summary
Add a Receipt Scanner page that allows users to upload a receipt image and automatically extract key expense details such as amount, date, and category. The extracted data should then auto-fill the expense form to make adding transactions faster and easier.
✅ Expected Features
Upload or drag-and-drop receipt image
Preview uploaded receipt
Extract text from receipt using OCR (Tesseract.js)
Detect important information such as:
Amount
Date
Merchant (if possible)
Auto-fill the transaction form with detected values
🎯 Tasks to Complete
Create a new Receipt Scanner page UI
Add file upload / drag-and-drop area for receipt images
Display preview of uploaded image
Integrate Tesseract.js for OCR text extraction
Parse extracted text to identify amount and date
Auto-fill the expense entry form with detected values
Ensure UI matches the project styling
💡 Suggested Tech
Frontend implementation can be done using:
HTML – Upload UI and form
CSS – Styling and layout
JavaScript – OCR processing and form auto-fill
Tesseract.js – Browser-based OCR library
🚀 Expected Outcome
Users will be able to scan receipts and quickly add expenses, improving usability and making the expense tracking process much faster.