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Turn a receipt photo into a row you still check

If expenses are part of your job: extract fields, then match the card statement. Not an accounting product.

What you will learn

✓Ask for fields, not a story
✓Check vendor, date, and amount against the real receipt
✓Keep the image out of a consumer bot if the receipt is sensitive

If you do not touch expenses, leave. If you do, a model can read a photo. It can also turn a 6 into an 8 and make finance sad.

Aside. The robot does not get your badge. Your manager still reads the email with your name on it.

Packet

Extract only: vendor, date, currency, amount, last four of card if visible, category guess.
If a field is unreadable, NEED.
Do not invent a tax amount.
I will type this into the real expense tool.

Check against the paper or the PDF. The pipeline is: photo → fields → you → the system of record.

You are done when

One receipt became a row you verified.

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