I built a receipt processor for Paperless-ngx
Details
- External ID
- 46842311
- Source
- HN
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- Launched
- Feb. 1, 2026
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi all,I wanted a robust way to keep track of my receipts without needing to keep them in a box and so i found paperless - but the existing paperless ai projects didn't really convert my receipts to usable data.so I created a fork of nutlope's receipthero (actually it's a complete rewrite, the only thing that remains over is the system prompt) The goal of this project is to be a one stop shop for automatically detecting tagged docs and converting them to json using schema definitions - that includes invoices, .... i can't think of any others right now, maybe you can? If you do please make an issue for it! I would appreciate any feedback/issues thanks!(p.s i made sure its simple to setup with dockge/basic docker-compose.yml)repo: https://github.com/smashah/receipthero-ngtutorial: https://youtu.be/LNlUDtD3og0
Enrichment
- Theme
- invoicing and bill generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- receipt processor for paperless-ngx
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a wrapper utility that ingests receipt images or PDFs, sends them to an LLM vision API for structured extraction, and pushes the data to the Paperless-ngx REST API.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Paperless
Competitors
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