Automate receipt data capture for expense management, bookkeeping, and financial workflows. Extract store names, items, totals, tax, and payment methods from any receipt or POS printout. No templates, no training data.
Send a receipt photo or scan to the extraction endpoint and receive structured JSON with store details, itemized purchases, totals, and payment information.
Three steps to go from a receipt photo to structured data. No training, no templates - the API understands receipts from any store automatically.
Send a photo, scan, or PDF of any receipt to the API endpoint. Supports smartphone photos, scanned images, and digital receipts.
The API identifies the store, reads each line item, calculates totals, and detects the payment method - all based on your schema.
Receive clean, typed JSON with store name, items, totals, and payment details, or download the same result as a CSV or Excel spreadsheet. Ready for your expense tracker, accounting system, or database.
Built for developers who need reliable receipt data extraction without building custom OCR pipelines for every store format.
Works with smartphone photos, flatbed scans, and digital receipts. Handles skew, shadows, and creases from real-world receipt capture.
AI-powered recognition handles faded thermal paper receipts that traditional OCR struggles with. Extracts data even from partially degraded printouts.
Extract every item on the receipt with name, quantity, and price. The API parses complex itemized lists including discounts, weight-based items, and modifiers.
Recognizes currency symbols and number formats from around the world. Handles USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, and any other currency without configuration.
Detects whether payment was made by cash, credit card, debit card, or digital wallet. Extracts card type and last four digits when available.
Add category fields to your schema and the API will classify purchases automatically. Group receipts by groceries, dining, travel, office supplies, and more.
The same schema-driven API works across every document type. Define a schema once, extract from thousands of files.
Extract structured JSON from any document with custom schemas.
Parse any PDF into structured JSON, scanned or digital.
Vendor, line items, totals, tax, and dates from invoices.
PO number, vendor, buyer, and SKU-level line items.
Transactions, running balances, and dates for reconciliation.
Box-level data from W-2, 1099, and other tax forms.
Parties, dates, governing law, and key clauses.
Carrier, parties, ports, containers, and cargo.
Common questions about the receipt parsing API.
Parse works with most smartphone photos, scanned images, and digital receipts. For best results, ensure the receipt is well-lit, flat, and fully visible in the image. The API handles slight skew, shadows, and creases automatically.
Yes. Parse uses AI to interpret document content even when text is partially faded, which is common with thermal paper receipts. While heavily degraded receipts may have lower accuracy, most thermal paper receipts - even older ones - are processed successfully.
Yes. Define an items array in your schema with fields like name, quantity, and price. The API will extract each line item separately, giving you a structured list of everything on the receipt.
Absolutely. Extract store name, date, total, tax, and payment method from each receipt, then feed the structured JSON directly into your expense management system, or download the results as a CSV or Excel spreadsheet. The API handles receipts from any store or restaurant without per-vendor configuration.
Parse supports receipts in any language and currency. The AI model understands multilingual text and recognizes currency symbols, formats, and conventions from around the world. No language-specific configuration is needed.
JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, HEIC, AVIF, and PDF. Most expense and bookkeeping apps capture receipts as JPEG, and the API processes any of these formats directly without conversion.
Yes. The OCR is trained on real-world captures, not flatbed-scanner ideals. Tilted shots, hand-held photos, indoor lighting, glare, and slight blur are all handled - good-enough beats picture-perfect.
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curl -X POST \
https://api-parse.conversiontools.io/v1/extract \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@receipt.jpg" \
-F 'schema={
"store_name": "string",
"date": "string",
"items": [{
"name": "string",
"quantity": "number",
"price": "number"
}],
"subtotal": "number",
"tax": "number",
"total": "number",
"payment_method": "string"
}'{
"status": "completed",
"data": {
"store_name": "Fresh Mart Grocery",
"date": "2026-03-08",
"items": [
{
"name": "Organic Whole Milk 1L",
"quantity": 2,
"price": 4.99
},
{
"name": "Sourdough Bread",
"quantity": 1,
"price": 5.49
},
{
"name": "Avocado Hass",
"quantity": 3,
"price": 1.29
}
],
"subtotal": 19.34,
"tax": 1.55,
"total": 20.89,
"payment_method": "Visa *4821"
}
}