Tabscanner OCR engine is available on Eden AI

We are pleased to announce that Tabscanner's OCR API has been integrated into Eden AI platform and API.

Tabscanner is a robust OCR software and an API platform that focuses on receipts. Their API provides access to powerful machine learning models that extract and classify data from receipts and invoices.

Tabscanner assists customers in extracting and parsing fast, accurate and robust data. The platform can extract accurate data from any language and character set in the world, and has already successfully extracted over 100,000,000 receipts worldwide. The engine can be used in many markets such as: management, cloud accounting, tax rebates, loyalty rewards and market research. Their goal is to provide customers with real-time, human-level accuracy in data extraction of receipts and invoices.

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We had the chance to talk with, Rashad Al-Safar, Founder and CEO of Tabscanner, who agreed to answer some of our questions:

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Can you introduce Tabscanner?

"Tabscsanner is one of the world's most advanced receipt OCR technologies. It has been trained using sophisticated machine learning models that understand, extract and classify data fields from receipts and invoices."

When was Tabscanner created? 

"2016."

What does Tabscanner provide to customers (APIs, Saas, languages, open source, etc.)? 

"Tabscanner is a highly accurate OCR technology accessed through a cloud-based API and capable of extracting and classifying detailed information from POS paper receipt images."

What's your recent news?‍

https://tabscanner.com/blog/tabscanner-wins-poc-for-expense-managament-and-accounts-payable-provider/ 

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Who are your customers? For which areas are Tabscanner services intended?

"Tabscanner is used by some of the world's largest companies such as Fujitsu, Chevron and Emirates Airlines. We service a wide range of markets including expense management, cloud accounting, tax rebates, loyalty rewards and market research."

Why did you decide to be integrated in Eden AI?

"Eden AI is a perfect platform for Tabcsanner to expand its reach and accessibility to new customers and solutions. It enables Tabscanner to work seamlessly alongside existing solutions and other AI engines."

This performant OCR engine can be directly used on Eden AI. It provides very good performance and recognizes invoices from many languages.

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To use Tabscanner on Eden AI, you just need to access either the platform or the API:

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import requests
import json
import pandas as pd


# Get your API key here: https://app.edenai.run/admin/account
headers = {'Authorization': 'Your API Key'}

url = "https://api.edenai.run/v1/pretrained/ocr/ocr_receipt"

# Available providers and languages here: https://api.edenai.run/v1/redoc/#operation/ocr_receipt
payload = {'providers': "['tabscanner']",'language': 'en-US'}
files = {'files': open('File path','rb')}

response = requests.post( url, headers=headers, data = payload, files = files)
result = json.loads(response.text)["result"]

print(result)

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Don’t hesitate to check it out on the platform or with the API.