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Receipt scanning misreads dates and vendors

Receipt scanning misreads dates, amounts and vendors, and users must correct each field by hand.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 20 November 2024 · last reported 22 April 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Users report that the receipt reader is unreliable: one says it gets the right result only about one time in five, while another says it often reads dates wrong and needs manual correction.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.