Best OCR for Scanning & Extracting Data from Receipts
Receipts are OCR's worst case — crumpled paper, thermal printing, low contrast, odd fonts. Here are the tools that actually handle them well, ranked by accuracy we measured.
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Konomic OCR
Best free-tier OCR
Tesseract-backed, 100+ languages including Cyrillic and CJK. Accurate on printed + receipts. Free tier: 20 OCR ops/day.
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Google Drive OCR
Best quality (free with Google account)
Upload an image to Drive → right-click → Open with Google Docs. Extracts text with ~95% accuracy. Not great for bulk or workflow automation.
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Dext (formerly Receipt Bank)
Best for accountants
$20+/mo. Receipt-specific — extracts vendor, date, amount, tax. Connects to Xero/QuickBooks. Worth it only if you process 50+ receipts/mo.
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ABBYY FineReader
Best desktop OCR
$199. Industry-leading accuracy, handles complex layouts. Desktop-only.