Free tool

Scan a receipt right in your browser.
Free OCR. Nothing uploaded.

Drop a photo — get the merchant, date, total, and tax as editable text. No sign-up, no usage cap, no server on the other end.

Photo never leaves your device Merchant · date · total · tax Works on phone photos
Drop a receipt photo here
JPG, PNG, or WebP · phone camera works · max 12 MB

How to extract text from a receipt

Three steps: photograph the receipt flat under even light, upload it above, and correct anything the OCR misread — the fields are editable for exactly that reason. The engine runs as WebAssembly inside your browser tab, which is why nothing is uploaded and why it stays free: there is no server doing the work. Optical character recognition reads the pixels back into characters; the heuristics on top of it find the fields that matter on a receipt — the merchant line at the top, the date, and the total (the real one, not the subtotal).

Quality in, quality out. Thermal receipts fade and crumple, and OCR accuracy follows the photo — flat beats curled, daylight beats bar lighting, filling the frame beats a receipt floating in a desk photo. For the longer story on what receipt OCR reads and where it still fails, see the receipt OCR deep dive; for the two-minute version of taking better receipt photos, this guide.

Now the real engine

This pulls one receipt.
Starlog does every receipt, automatically.

The app runs a far stronger pipeline than a browser tab can: snap a receipt and it’s read — vendor, total, tax, line items — categorized by IRS / HMRC / GST rules, and filed into your own Google Drive. You never type a merchant name again.

Live
on the App Store
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Line
items too —
not just the total
$0
to start
Free up to 30 receipts a month
  • Snap once. We read the vendor, total, tax, and line items.
  • Filed to your Google Drive — so if you ever leave Starlog, your receipts stay yours.
  • Categorized by IRS / HMRC / GST rules — your accountant imports it, no cleanup.
Free for 30 receipts a month · No card · No sign-up to start

Frequently asked questions

Is this really free?
Yes — free, no sign-up, no usage cap. The OCR runs in your own browser, so there's no server bill for us to recoup.
Is my receipt uploaded anywhere?
No. The image is processed entirely on your device — the OCR engine (about 2 MB) downloads into your browser on the first scan, and your photo never leaves it. Close the tab and nothing remains anywhere.
What formats are supported?
JPG, PNG, and WebP images up to 12 MB — a phone photo or a screenshot both work. For a PDF receipt, screenshot the receipt portion and upload that. On mobile you can capture straight from the camera.
How accurate is it?
On flat, well-lit receipts — printed or thermal — it reliably pulls the merchant, date, total, and tax, and it knows the difference between the subtotal and the total. Crumpled, blurry, or dim photos degrade: you’ll get partial results, and every field is editable so you can fix what it missed. There’s a knack to the photo — how to photograph receipts for OCR covers it in two minutes.
Can it read line items or whole batches?
Not here — this tool reads one receipt at a time and extracts the header fields. Reading line items, categorizing the spend, and filing every receipt automatically is what the Starlog app does; this page is the single-receipt demo of that engine.

Also free: Receipt generator · Receipt OCR, explained · All free tools

You just watched it read one receipt.
Now stop doing the other 29 by hand.

Starlog reads, categorizes, and files every receipt to your own Google Drive — line items included. Free up to 30 receipts a month.