Receipt-Data-Extractor

Description

This CLI application processes receipt images, detects text areas, extracts text (items, prices, and totals), and compares multiple receipts by visualizing the totals in a chart.

Features

• Image preprocessing (resizing, orientation correction, deskewing)
• Text area detection
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using Tesseract
• Summarization of receipt data (item name, quantity, price, subtotal, cash, change)
• Comparison of multiple receipts with a visual bar chart

Prerequisites

1. Install Tesseract

   • Windows: Download and install Tesseract here
   • Uncomment line 7 in ocr_recognition.py file. (Give the correct installed path of tesseract OCR engine)
   • Linux: Install via terminal:

     sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

   • macOS: Install via Homebrew:

     brew install tesseract

2. Install Python Dependencies Run the following command to install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Running the Application

Process a single receipt

python main.py path/to/receipt_image.jpg

• example:

python main.py images/input/r1.png

Compare multiple receipts

python main.py --compare