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A friend and I had kicked around a startup idea where you would take a picture of your receipt with your phone and upload it to our service. Then it would do OC
by zck 16y ago
A friend and I had kicked around a startup idea where you would take a picture of your receipt with your phone and upload it to our service. Then it would do OCR, and at the end of the month, you could easily reconcile your statement with the receipts you took pictures of. One benefit is that you don't have to trust the credit card company, or the merchant you buy from, which is a problem of your proposed system.
- blhack 16y agoIs the resolution of most cell-phone cameras good enough for this? I frequently use my phone to take pictures of stuff I would normally just write down (error message after a kernel panic, asset tag, where I parked my car, etc. etc.), but for things the size of a receipt, I can't read it... What phone were you using?
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI routinely use my iphone 3gs to take photos of things like that; my glasses and contact prescriptions live in my phone as images, I'm not even certain where the originals are now. I'm guessing that anything that's come out around the same time would do fine in good lighting.
- zck 16y agoFor example, the iphone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera.
- GFischer 16y agoMy Nokia N86 8mp certainly is :) (though it has some trouble focusing at short range). I expect cell phone cameras like that will become commonplace in the next year or so, so it's a good time for startups to abuse that.
- brianbreslin 16y agocheck out shoeboxed.com i think they have this as part of their service. great idea nonetheless.
- djb_hackernews 16y agoI remember a few months back some guys here on HN forming a startup based on this concept. Can't find any links. Maybe they are YC funded as well.