Open Receipt OCR

Spec sheet

Purpose

Open Receipt OCR is an OCR platform designed for receipts and documents, with local and cloud OCR providers.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Deployment

The project documents deployment with Docker Compose and requires Redis for background job processing.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

API

A REST API supports uploading one or more files, checking job status and results, listing jobs, and deleting jobs or files.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Support

The project directs users to GitHub Issues and its documentation for questions and common issues.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

License

The site describes the project as open source and directs readers to the repository for license details.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

API limitations

Rate limiting and webhooks are not implemented; the documentation says to poll the job endpoint for status updates.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Deployment requirements

The documented setup requires Node.js 18 or higher and Redis; Docker and Docker Compose are optional for containerized deployment.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Jobs and exports

Users can upload receipt images, choose an OCR provider, view extracted text, and download or copy results.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Local processing

PaddleOCR Local and Tesseract.js can process OCR without API keys; PaddleOCR Local downloads about 300 MB of model files on first use.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

OCR providers

It supports more than 10 local and cloud OCR engines, including PaddleOCR, Tesseract.js, Gemini, OpenAI, Mistral, and AWS Textract.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Operational limits

Rate limiting and webhooks are not implemented; the documentation recommends polling job status.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Provider choice

The project lists local PaddleOCR, Tesseract.js and llama.cpp, plus cloud providers including TabScanner, Gemini, OpenAI, Mistral, xAI Grok, AWS Textract and PaddleOCR API.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Secret management

Secrets can be read from environment variables or managed through Infisical, which the guide lists as supporting audit logs, rotation and team collaboration.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Security limitation

The API currently requires no authentication, and its documentation recommends adding API key authentication for production deployments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Storage integration

Uploaded files can be stored locally or in OneDrive through Microsoft Graph.Read 4 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Storage integrations

Files can be stored locally by default or in OneDrive through Microsoft Graph.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Workflow

Users can upload receipt images, choose a configured OCR provider, view extracted text, and download or copy results.Read 11 Oct 2026 · iursevla.github.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Receipt Management Software#27 of 277.1