Reading an employee expense receipt into a claim line
Pulls merchant, date, total and tax off a photographed or scanned receipt, fills the claim line, and holds back the ones that fail a policy test — a duplicate image, a missing supplier GSTIN where credit is being claimed, a date outside the approved travel window — for a human approver to settle before the payment run.
- Effort
- Weeks of work
- Skill level
- Comfortable with software
- Organisation size
- Mid-market
- Value
- Time saved, Quality
Tools named for this
- An optical character recognition and key-information-extraction service
- A deterministic rules layer holding the travel and entertainment policy
- A mobile capture app that keeps the original image
What to check before you ship it in India
- A claim is personal data about an identified employee and the output drives a decision that affects them. Section 8(3) requires the Data Fiduciary to ensure such data is complete, accurate and consistent before it is used that way, which puts the burden of a misread total on the employer, not the model.
- Thermal receipts fade. A meal claimed three weeks late can be unreadable to the extractor and to the approver it escalates to, and neither can tell whether the fault was capture or age.
Sources
Every claim on this page traces to one of these, on the date it was read.
- The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (No. 22 of 2023) — most obligations commence 13 May 2027 under the DPDP Rules 2025 — s.8(3) · Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology · a rule · read 2026-09-01
- ICDAR2019 Competition on Scanned Receipt OCR and Information Extraction (arXiv:2103.10213) · International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) · that this is done · read 2026-09-01