From Phone Photo to Spreadsheet Row

You have a stack of receipts or a folder of scanned invoices. The goal is simple: get the key information from each one into a spreadsheet. The reality is tedious. You open an image, squint at the details, and type everything out, field by field. The photos are often taken in a hurry—a little tilted, with weird shadows. It's a slow, error-prone process that no one wants to do.

What if you could skip the manual entry? With space-ocr, you define the columns you need just once—say, Vendor, Invoice Date, and Total Amount. Then, you can upload images of your documents, regardless of their layout. An invoice from one supplier and a receipt from another both resolve to the same, clean row structure in your sheet. It works directly with standard image formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP that you get from a scanner or a phone camera.

This works even with the quirks of phone photos. If you take a picture holding your phone vertically, the image file often contains orientation data (EXIF) telling software to rotate it for viewing. space-ocr reads this data on upload, automatically correcting the image so that the coordinates of the extracted text perfectly match the image as you see it on screen. There is no need for manual language selection, either. The system automatically detects and processes text from multiple languages, like Japanese, English, and Korean, all within the same document.

The pricing is straightforward: $0.05 per image. Every account gets 100 free scans each month to start. And if for some technical reason a scan fails to produce a result, you are not charged for it. It's a simple, pay-as-you-go utility for getting data out of your documents and into a more useful format.