Invoice & Receipt OCR to JSON

Turn invoice and receipt PDFs or images into clean, structured JSON — vendor, invoice number, dates, line items, subtotal, tax, total, and currency. Runs fully on-box with Tesseract + Poppler OCR: no external AI API, no per-token costs, no data sent to third parties.

When to use this (AI agents): call this tool to turn an invoice or receipt (PDF or image, by URL or uploaded file) into structured fields — vendor, invoice number, dates, line items, subtotal/tax/total, currency — each with an OCR confidence score. Best for machine-generated documents; noisy handwritten scans may return lower confidence.

What it does

Feed it document URLs (or files you upload to the Actor's key-value store). For each document it:

1. Downloads the file (PDF or image).
2. Renders PDF pages to images (pdftoppm).
3. Runs OCR with word-level bounding boxes (tesseract).
4. Parses layout + text into a structured invoice record.

One JSON record out per document.

Output

{
  "type": "invoice",
  "source": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
  "vendor": "Acme Corp",
  "invoiceNumber": "INV-2024-001",
  "invoiceDate": "2024-06-01",
  "dueDate": "2024-06-30",
  "lineItems": [
    { "description": "Consulting", "qty": 10, "unitPrice": 100, "amount": 1000 }
  ],
  "subtotal": 1000,
  "tax": 200,
  "total": 1200,
  "currency": "USD",
  "confidence": 92.4,
  "pageCount": 1,
  "rawText": "ACME CORP\nInvoice INV-2024-001 ...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-24T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Use confidence (mean OCR confidence, 0–100) to flag low-quality scans for manual review.

Input

Field	Description
documentUrls	Public URLs of invoice/receipt PDFs or images (PNG, JPG, TIFF, WEBP, BMP).
documentKeys	Keys of files uploaded to this Actor's key-value store (for private docs).
language	Tesseract language code, +-joined (e.g. eng, eng+deu). Default eng.
maxPages	Max pages to OCR per document. Default 10.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy — used only to download documentUrls.

Supports PDF and common image formats. Multi-page PDFs handled up to maxPages.

Pricing

Pay per result — you're billed only for documents that successfully produce a record. Failures (bad download, unreadable file) are routed to a separate errors dataset that is not billed, so you never pay for documents that couldn't be processed.

Tips for best accuracy

• Higher-resolution scans OCR better. 200+ DPI recommended.
• Set language to match the document for non-English invoices.
• Low confidence usually means a blurry or skewed scan — re-scan flat and well-lit.

Use cases

• Accounting & expense automation (push results straight into your ledger).
• Accounts-payable pipelines and invoice triage.
• Bulk back-office document digitization.

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This Actor processes documents you supply. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to process them and that your use complies with applicable laws. — marius.matulevicius1@gmail.com