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Showing 5 of 5How to photograph a receipt so the OCR actually reads it.
OCR does the typing for you — but only if the photo gives it something to work with. Seven habits that turn a blurry, half-lit slip into a clean, correct capture.
Connecting Google Drive to Starlog: setup, permissions, and fixing sync.
What Starlog can and can't see in your Drive, how to connect it in under a minute, and how to fix the most common snag — signing in with Apple and wondering where Drive went.
Handing your accountant a clean export (what's actually in the ZIP).
One tap gives you a single ZIP: a spreadsheet plus every receipt image. Here's exactly what your accountant receives, and how to hand it over so they don't bill you to sort it.
Tracking expenses by trip, project, or client — not just by month.
Tax season wants your year sliced by month. But you think in trips, projects, and clients — and so does your profit. How to group receipts the way the work actually happens.
Receipt OCR for PDF and emailed receipts: the ones that were never paper.
A growing share of receipts arrive as PDFs and email attachments, never as paper. How receipt OCR handles a digital receipt, why a PDF isn't automatically 'done', and a workflow that files it in your own Drive.