Extract merchant, date, amount, tax, and line items from any receipt format directly into a shared Google Sheet. Perfect for expense tracking and reconciliation.
Receipts are the worst documents for data extraction. Thermal paper fades. Phone photos are taken at angles, in bad lighting, with fingers in the frame. Formats vary wildly — a gas station receipt looks nothing like a restaurant check, which looks nothing like an office supply store receipt. And the data people actually need (merchant name, date, total, tax, maybe line items) is scattered in different positions on every single one.
Generic OCR tools treat receipts like any other document and produce garbled results. Tools designed for invoices or bank statements assume a table structure that receipts don't have. What you need is something built specifically for receipt extraction.
Lido uses AI trained specifically on receipt formats — gas stations, restaurants, retail stores, coffee shops, office supplies. It identifies the merchant name, transaction date, total amount, tax, and individual line items regardless of the receipt layout. The extracted data writes directly to a Google Sheet with standardized columns.
For expense management, this means: employees forward receipt emails (or upload photos) and structured data appears in a shared expense tracking Sheet. Finance reviews the Sheet instead of opening individual receipt images. Approval happens right in Sheets — add a status column, use conditional formatting, done.
Capture: Employees photograph receipts on their phone or forward receipt emails to a dedicated intake address.
Extract: Lido pulls merchant name, date, amount, tax, and category into a shared Google Sheet.
Review: Finance reviews the Sheet — sorting by employee, filtering by date range or amount threshold, flagging anything that needs clarification.
Export: Once approved, export the Sheet to CSV for import into your accounting software, or connect it directly via API.
Full expense management platforms like Expensify and Dext handle the entire workflow — capture, approval, reimbursement, accounting integration. If you need that full pipeline, they're good options. But if your team already works in Google Sheets and you just need receipt data in a spreadsheet without adding another SaaS platform, direct receipt-to-Sheets extraction is simpler and cheaper.
Many small teams and freelancers find that a Google Sheet with extracted receipt data is all the "expense management" they need. Add a few formulas for monthly totals and category breakdowns and you have a complete expense tracking system without another subscription.
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