Difference between revisions of "Receipts automation"

Revision as of 00:51, 2 July 2015

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 systems. 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.

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 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.
+* Use this standard format by the recipient in his different systems. 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.