{
  "id": 15510134,
  "title": "Shoebox: receipts in, spreadsheet out, and your clients’ data never leaves the laptop.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/shoebox-receipts-in-spreadsheet-out-and-your-clients-data-never",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-18T23:06:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ayush_01/shoebox-receipts-in-spreadsheet-out-and-your-clients-data-never-leaves-the-laptop-1nhh"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This story is about Shoebox, a local web app that turns physical receipts into clean, categorized spreadsheets. You simply drop in receipt photos, and the app uses Gemma 3 (4B) running on your own machine through Ollama to read each one and fill a table. Shoebox extracts data like date, vendor, currency, subtotal, tax/GST, total, payment method, category, line items, and a confidence score for each receipt. If the confidence score is under 0.6, the row turns amber, allowing you to check and edit the image or fix the fields. The app doesn't hide uncertainty; it clearly flags rows that might be inaccurate. Shoebox is meant for small business owners or freelancers who deal with a monthly pile of receipts and invoices, as it saves them from hours of manual data entry. It costs $49 (or ₹3,999 in India) for a one-time license, which the writer believes is worth it if it saves users 7.5 hours of tedious work each month. You can check it out on GitHub.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Every small business has a shoebox. Think of a freelance designer in her second year. Client bills pile up in a drawer, her accountant wants a spreadsheet by the 10th, and typing 40 receipts into Excel eats a Saturday. (She's a composite I imagined, not a real client.) The tools that automate this want you to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}