Receipt Capture With OCR: What It Handles and What It Doesn't
OCR, or optical character recognition, reads text from a photo of a bill. It saves typing, but it is not magic. Knowing what it does well helps you set up a process people trust.
What it usually reads well
- Amount and date
- Vendor name
- Tax details printed on the bill
- Invoice number
Where a person still checks
- Faded or crumpled thermal paper
- Handwritten bills
- Bills with several items and mixed taxes
- Bills in a language the system is not set for
A sensible process
- Photograph the bill straight away, flat and in good light.
- Let the system fill the fields.
- Correct anything that looks wrong.
- Keep the original image with the entry.
How OmniCard fits
OmniCard's Receipt/OCR agent reads bills so nobody types amounts, and Reimburse360 uses OCR for bills with one-tap approvals and auto-settlement. Every AI action is logged, explainable and reversible by the finance team.
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