Is Receipt Ripper really free?

Yes. There's no signup, no paid tier, no usage limit. The site runs on advertising plus optional donations — that's it. The full feature set is available on every visit.

Where do my receipts go?

Nowhere. The image is decoded, OCR'd, parsed, and exported entirely inside your browser. There's no upload step and no server-side processing — open your DevTools Network panel during a scan and you'll see no request carries the image bytes anywhere.

What languages and currencies does it support?

Receipt Ripper is built and tested on receipts in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese. Currency detection covers EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, JPY, and the spelled-out forms (Euro, Dollar, Franc).

Does it work on iPhone photos?

Yes. iPhone HEIC / HEIF photos are decoded client-side via libheif-js and processed identically to JPGs. The mobile camera button in the dropzone opens the rear camera directly so you can scan a receipt and immediately see it parsed.

Can I use it offline?

After the first visit, yes. The Tesseract OCR engine and language packs cache in your browser, so subsequent scans don't need a network connection. The ad banner and analytics will be missing offline; the receipt-processing functionality is unaffected.

Can I use it for taxes?

Many do. The XLSX export's "Summary" sheet groups receipts by category and currency with grand totals; the "per-receipt breakdown" sheets give your accountant the line-item detail they need. The "exclude tax from exports" toggle hides VAT/IVA columns when handing data to third parties is detrimental in your jurisdiction.

How do you handle bad photos?

Wrinkled paper, fold marks, slight tilts, and most photographing-on-a-textured-surface cases are handled automatically — there's a dual-tier corner-detection pipeline (Hough lines first, edge-contour flood-fill fallback). For receipts the auto-detect can't crop, every session gets a "Re-crop manually" button that opens an interactive corner picker.

What about multiple receipts at once?

Drop them all on the dropzone, or drop a ZIP archive containing the images / PDFs. They process in parallel through a worker pool sized to your hardware (2 workers on mobile / low-RAM, hardwareConcurrency − 2 on desktop). The "Download ZIP" export bundles every processed image alongside a single workbook — handy for archiving a quarter at a time.

Why does the download wait 5 seconds?

Free, ad-supported tools cost something to run. The pre-export prompt offers a one-click donation via Stripe Payment Link before your file downloads. Skip is right there if you're in a hurry — the download fires the moment the countdown ends regardless.

Is the source code open?

The OCR engine (Tesseract.js), PDF reader (Mozilla's pdf.js), HEIC decoder (libheif-js), and Excel writer (SheetJS xlsx) are all open source — see the in-app license link in the footer for the full attribution list.

Free private receipt scanner — convert photos and PDFs to CSV, Excel, ZIP

Receipt Ripper turns receipt photos and PDFs into structured data — vendor, date, line items, totals, tax — entirely in your browser. No upload, no signup, no account. Free forever.

How it works

1. Drop the receipt

Drag a photo (JPG, PNG, HEIC, even an iPhone HEIF), drop a PDF, or paste from your clipboard. Multiple receipts at once work too — drop a batch or even a ZIP archive of last quarter's photos.
2. OCR runs in your browser

Tesseract.js processes each receipt inside a Web Worker. Photos get auto-cropped, perspective-corrected, and read end-to-end on your device. Nothing uploads to any server.
3. Review and export

Edit any field that came through wrong, tag receipts with categories, then download CSV, Excel (.xlsx), or a ZIP that bundles a workbook plus every original image — ready for your bookkeeper.

Why local OCR matters

Most receipt scanners work by uploading your image to a cloud OCR pipeline. Their server receives the photo, runs OCR remotely, and returns structured data. That works, but it means receipts sit on someone else's hardware: payment-card last-fours, store locations, purchase patterns, dates and times you were somewhere.

Receipt Ripper takes the opposite stance. The OCR runs on your device. The parsed data lives in your browser tab and gets exported straight to your filesystem. There is no API call carrying receipt bytes — it's structurally impossible because the site's Content Security Policy refuses external network connections from anything that could carry receipt content.

That makes Receipt Ripper a fit for anyone whose receipt data is sensitive: business owners with expense patterns they don't want indexed, contractors whose client billing is private, individuals doing tax prep, anyone in a high-regulation industry, and anyone who simply prefers their stuff stays theirs.

Use cases

Tax preparation

Year-end tax filing means turning a shoebox of receipts into deductible-expense rows. Receipt Ripper batches a quarter's worth in minutes. Subtotal, tax (VAT / IVA / TVA / GST), and total are extracted per receipt and summed in the Excel export — your accountant gets a workbook that pivots cleanly.

Expense reports

Reimbursable spend tracking on the road or after a client trip. Drag the receipts off your phone, edit the vendor names if OCR mangled them, hit Export. The ZIP bundle gives your finance team a workbook plus every original image attached — no separate "find the matching photo" step.

Freelancer bookkeeping

Self-employed bookkeeping is a slow accumulation of small purchases. Drop each receipt in as you get it, tag with project or client, and the running batch sums the relevant totals. Toggle "Exclude tax from exports" if your jurisdiction frowns on handing tax-itemised data to third parties.

Splitting bills

Group dinner where everyone wants their slice itemised. Receipt Ripper extracts each line item with quantity and price, so you can split by what each person actually ordered instead of dividing the total. Works on Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch receipts as well as English.

Frequently asked questions

Is Receipt Ripper really free?: Yes. There's no signup, no paid tier, no usage limit. The site runs on advertising plus optional donations — that's it. The full feature set is available on every visit.
Where do my receipts go?: Nowhere. The image is decoded, OCR'd, parsed, and exported entirely inside your browser. There's no upload step and no server-side processing — open your DevTools Network panel during a scan and you'll see no request carries the image bytes anywhere.
What languages and currencies does it support?: Receipt Ripper is built and tested on receipts in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese. Currency detection covers EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, JPY, and the spelled-out forms (Euro, Dollar, Franc).
Does it work on iPhone photos?: Yes. iPhone HEIC / HEIF photos are decoded client-side via libheif-js and processed identically to JPGs. The mobile camera button in the dropzone opens the rear camera directly so you can scan a receipt and immediately see it parsed.
Can I use it offline?: After the first visit, yes. The Tesseract OCR engine and language packs cache in your browser, so subsequent scans don't need a network connection. The ad banner and analytics will be missing offline; the receipt-processing functionality is unaffected.
Can I use it for taxes?: Many do. The XLSX export's "Summary" sheet groups receipts by category and currency with grand totals; the "per-receipt breakdown" sheets give your accountant the line-item detail they need. The "exclude tax from exports" toggle hides VAT/IVA columns when handing data to third parties is detrimental in your jurisdiction.
How do you handle bad photos?: Wrinkled paper, fold marks, slight tilts, and most photographing-on-a-textured-surface cases are handled automatically — there's a dual-tier corner-detection pipeline (Hough lines first, edge-contour flood-fill fallback). For receipts the auto-detect can't crop, every session gets a "Re-crop manually" button that opens an interactive corner picker.
What about multiple receipts at once?: Drop them all on the dropzone, or drop a ZIP archive containing the images / PDFs. They process in parallel through a worker pool sized to your hardware (2 workers on mobile / low-RAM, hardwareConcurrency − 2 on desktop). The "Download ZIP" export bundles every processed image alongside a single workbook — handy for archiving a quarter at a time.
Why does the download wait 5 seconds?: Free, ad-supported tools cost something to run. The pre-export prompt offers a one-click donation via Stripe Payment Link before your file downloads. Skip is right there if you're in a hurry — the download fires the moment the countdown ends regardless.
Is the source code open?: The OCR engine (Tesseract.js), PDF reader (Mozilla's pdf.js), HEIC decoder (libheif-js), and Excel writer (SheetJS xlsx) are all open source — see the in-app license link in the footer for the full attribution list.

Feature requests & tricky receipts

Have an idea for a feature, or a receipt that didn't scan correctly? Email contact@receipt-ripper.com — every problem receipt you share helps us tune the detection engine.