Receipts automation

Problem:

• Dealing with receipts is tedious:
  • The information gets printed out on sent by email in a non-standard format, and has to be typed in again by the recipient in order for it to be used.
  • Current scanning abilities (OCR / Mechanical Turk) are error prone
• Information on receipts can be useful for:
  • Taxes
  • Budgeting
  • Personal data mining
• There's no standard for a digital way to transfer the information from the issuer to the recipient
• There seems to be little incentive by some sides to help automate the process
• Note: automating the process could lead to privacy concerns, that today's manual processes is obfuscating

There seems to be an easy way to solve this:

• Link from the receipt (using a URL / QR-Code) - to a standard format that contains the receipt's information - digitally on the web.
• Use this standard format by the recipient in his different applications. This way, manual error-prone data entry can be prevented. With a click on the link - the correct data will be fed to the recipient's system.