Receipt OCR that reads crumpled, handwritten and faded receipts

Receipts don't arrive flat and pristine. They come crumpled in a wallet, handwritten on a delivery note, faded from a thermal printer, or photographed at an angle on someone's phone. Retyping these by hand, one at a time, is where a lot of a bookkeeper's month goes.

Most OCR tools are built and tested on clean, high-resolution scans. Krani is built around the receipts that actually turn up: real photos, real handwriting, real wear.

Upload a receipt as a PDF, JPG or HEIC file, or forward it from a client's WhatsApp chat. Krani reads the supplier, date, amount and tax, and matches the entry to the client's existing chart of accounts.

Where a receipt is too unclear to read with confidence, Krani flags it with a confidence score instead of guessing, so it gets a quick human check before it's posted rather than being entered wrong.

Clients rarely send one clean receipt at a time. Some tape a handful of small receipts onto an A4 sheet and scan the whole page. Others send a single PDF that runs to a dozen pages, with delivery orders and quotations mixed in among the invoices.

• Several receipts on one A4 scan: Krani finds each receipt on the page and creates a separate entry for each one.
• Multi-page PDF bundles: Krani splits the file into individual invoices and sets aside pages that aren't invoices, such as delivery orders, so they aren't booked as expenses.

• SST: Krani reads the SST charged on a receipt, at 6% or 8%, and separates it from the net amount. You choose whether entries are booked tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive, to match how each client keeps their books. See which SST rate applies.
• Duplicates: if the same invoice is uploaded twice, or an amended version of an invoice comes in, Krani checks the invoice number, date, amount and supplier and flags it as a possible duplicate, so it isn't booked twice.
• Foreign currency: receipts in another currency, such as Singapore dollars, are converted to ringgit using Bank Negara Malaysia exchange rate data.
• Learning from corrections: when you correct a field, Krani uses that correction the next time it reads documents from the same supplier, so accuracy improves for that client over time.

Once a receipt is read, it's matched against bank transactions during bank reconciliation, then posted directly into AutoCount, SQL Account or another supported system, or exported as a ready-to-import file. See the full list on the integrations page.