Receipt OCR
On Log Purchase, choose Upload Receipt to have Backscene read a file and fill vendor, date, total, and line items. You always review before anything is saved.
Receipt OCR requires Lite, Pro, or Studio. Free can still Log manually instead. See Plans & Features.
What you can upload
Images (including common phone formats such as JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF, WebP, TIFF, GIF) and PDF. The app may normalize some formats before processing.
The flow
- Start from a project's Purchases tab or Log Purchase.
- Upload a receipt, then click Analyze — you'll see “Reading receipt…” while it runs.
- Review extracted fields next to the receipt image; fix anything that's wrong.
- Confirm on the summary screen — only then is the purchase created.
If OCR fails, you can retry the upload or switch to manual entry. The broader purchase workflow (fields, line items, reconcile afterward) is in Logging Purchases.
Who can use it
People who can create purchases (not Viewers) on a plan with receipt parsing enabled. Locked plans show an upgrade CTA instead of the upload path.