Automating receipt processing with deep learning(nanonets.com) |
Automating receipt processing with deep learning(nanonets.com) |
However, this sort of "content marketing by tweaking submission titles to the same blog repeatedly" posting behaviour would be flagged to oblivion if done by a non-YCombinator funded company...
I think that once you go down the path of OCR'ing your own invoices, you better start a company around it.
Building a company that does only exactly one things, offer an API that takes a receipt as input and returns key/value, is enough.
Sure - there's good retro usage, I'd rather push for sellers to offer you digital receipts.
In fact, I already get that from my local supermarket. My bank card is registered to their app, so every time I swipe my card or scan my app (when paying with cash), I get a receipt on the app, which I can export.
I remember back in college, over 10 years ago, this was a very hot topic. Receipt management was one of those entrepreneur ideas that would always pop up.
My wife has gotten very serious about optimizing the last hay penny out of our expenses, and I'd much rather build her our own receipt ingestion process than use a 3rd party who is reselling our data.
Yeah, but see, I have this shiny hammer, and if I squint just right, everything looks like a nail!
The seasonal trends in the programmer world get kinda tiring after a while, and the people peddling the latest hot new thing equally so, such as this thinly veiled promo piece for nanonets.
In science, there's this concept of falsifiability. If a theory can't be disproven, it's automatically false. The same goes for technological evangelism. If no-one knows what a piece of tech is bad at, how the hell would you know if it's any good at anything, really? There are no panaceas, no one-tool-to-rule-them-all, no single piece of tech that will usher in a new golden age for programmerkind. They're just tools in a toolbox. Know what each tool is good at. Know what each tool is bad at. Don't forget your old tools, just because the newest tool is still very shiny.
Platitudes, I know, but still.
As standard OCR gets better and better, the room for specialized OCR solutions is becoming smaller.
That's great but why does this need to be an app? Why can't it be sent via email or have a website I can log into? I'm not downloading an app for every company I want to do business with.
if the need was there you'd already get a qr code to a shortlink to a rest api to fetch the data. existing tech, well defined behavior, augments existing data transfer without being incompatible with the current clients (the squishy humans)
Not surprising as it's one of the first things one runs into after starting a company.
