Squareup receipts software#
It also makes it much easier to tell which images need to be scanned - if there’s no QR code found, the software just skips that shot and keeps looking. This greatly improves the reliability of the image rotation and transformation, which in turn makes the OCR more reliable. He came up with a QR code marker that he could put on the table with the receipt to be scanned, which his software can use as a known point of reference. In the end, realized that the best way to handle the unreliable condition of the receipts was to focus on a different object in the image. The promising proof of concept that worked a treat under controlled conditions failed completely in the real-world, with reporting that only 1 in 5 receipts he tried to scan actually went through. It’s one thing to capture data from perfectly clean and flat receipts, but quite another to get any useful info out of one that spent half the day crumpled up in your back pocket. Using a QR code as reference point.īut like so many horror films that begin with a happy family starting a new life in a beautiful home, there was a monster lurking in the shadows. With this information, writing up some Python code to push his captured data into the service was trivial. He was then able to decipher the API for Splitwise, an online service for splitting bills, by capturing the data sent by his browser while adding a new bill. The code could detect the edges of the receipt, rotate the captured image appropriately, and then pull out the critical information such as date, total amount, business name, etc. It only took an evening to hack together a rough demo, and the initial results were very promising. We’re happy he stuck with it though, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading about it on Hackaday, and we wouldn’t be able to learn anything from the detailed account he’s provided. But in reality it took so much time to troubleshoot and implement that he says it would have been faster to just enter in all his receipts by hand. That’s what thought when he set out to create his homebrew “Receipt Ingestion” system, anyway. There are companies that offer such a service, so it can’t be too difficult to replicate on your own…right?
For example, a husband could sign up for Square digital receipt program and get receipts every time his wife makes a purchase with the shared card at any Square vendor.It’s one of those things that certainly sounds simple enough: take a picture of a receipt, run it through optical character recognition (OCR), and send the resulting information to whatever expense-tracking website or software you wish. The paper noted that many of the complaints focused on receipts going to someone else came when a credit card was shared between a husband and wife. The spokesman went on to say that digital receipts can be received by the incorrect person for different reasons, such as if customers share a credit card number or the receipt goes to a recycled mobile phone. “We’ve already made a number of changes to the experience, resulting in a more than 50 percent decrease in customer issues in one year, and we have more improvements in the works.”
“While receipts received by the wrong person are incredibly rare, even one is a really bad experience,” a Square spokesman said in the report. Square told the woman the mistake occurred because her friend’s email address was used in the past to get a copy of a receipt from an earlier purchase from a different vendor. One customer was trying to keep an upcoming divorce under wraps when the receipt for the attorney was mistakenly sent to a friend. Square, the digital payments company that handles millions of transactions for consumers, sometimes sends the receipts to the wrong people, a situation chronicled in a new Wall Street Journal report.Īccording to the report, citing emails seen by the paper, Square has erroneously sent receipts documenting transactions ranging from a simple cup of coffee to more significant purchases.
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