Inspiration
As college students, money is tight, we wanted to create an app that would help us track how much we were spending as well as expedite processes such as reimbursement.
What it does
It takes a picture of a receipt and extracts the text and prices on it and then displays this information on a spreadsheet.
How we built it
Used Node.js for the front and back end, also implemented Google's Cloud Vision API for character recognition.
Challenges we ran into
We originally planned to use an Android application for our front-end, but we weren't able to send the image file to a Google Storage Bucket from the app, so we decided to make a web-application.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Creating a functioning application and implementing Google's Vision API.
What we learned
Limitations of Google's Cloud Platform, and a greater intuition of how machine learning algorithms such as Optical Character Recognition work.
What's next for Recepitrack
We hope to include more data analysis features, hopefully utilizing more of Google's Cloud Platform.
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