Solutions / Receipt parsing
Receipt parser for expenses and transaction records
Extract merchant details, dates, taxes, totals, payment methods, and individual purchased items from digital or scanned receipts.
- ✓ Reusable relational schema
- ✓ Dashboard or API workflow
- ✓ SQLite, JSON, CSV, or XML export
Product video coming soon
Convert a receipt into structured expense data
This video will show a receipt being parsed into merchant, receipt, and purchased-item tables, followed by a SQL query and API result.
Transformation
receipt.pdf → PDFParse → merchants + receipts + receipt_items
Relational output
Select a relationship to explore →
receipts
Relationship: receipts.id → receipt_items.receipt_id
Try the API
Extract from your code.
Submit an uploaded document using an existing schema. PDFParse queues processing asynchronously; retrieve completed records through the same API. Applications and AI agents use this endpoint too.
# Documents must already be uploaded to your active project.
curl -X POST https://api.pdfparse.net/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PDFPARSE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"tableSlug": "invoices",
"documentKeys": ["uploaded-document-id"]
}'
# { "id": 123, "status": "queued" }Why PDFParse
Extract receipt-level and item-level data separately.
Normalize receipts from different merchants.
Reuse schemas for expense automation.
Query and export clean transaction data.
Edge cases
Faded scans
Long receipts
Multiple tax lines
Discounts
Tips
Duplicate names
Missing quantities
Mixed date and time
Common questions.
Can PDFParse extract individual receipt items?
Yes. Define receipt_items as a child table.
Does it support scanned receipts?
Yes.
Can it detect taxes, tips, and discounts?
Yes, when those fields are included in your schema.
Can different merchants use one schema?
Yes. A schema can normalize the shared fields you need.
Can receipt data be exported to CSV?
Yes.
Is there a PDFParse API?
Yes. Use project-scoped API keys to create extraction jobs and retrieve structured records from your active project.
Can AI agents use this workflow?
Yes. Applications and AI agents can use the same project-scoped API endpoints after documents are uploaded and a schema is available.