🧾 Receipt Tracker — Storage & Expense Analysis System

Goal:
Allow users to upload their real shopping receipts (digital or scanned), store them securely, and analyze their spending based on the extracted data.

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🔧 Core Features

📤 Receipt Upload

• Upload PDFs or images (JPG/PNG) or manually input data
• File storage in database or cloud storage (e.g., Cloudinary / AWS S3)

🧠 Data Extraction (OCR)

• Uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract:
  • 🏪 Store name
  • 📅 Purchase date
  • 🛒 Purchased items
  • 💲 Prices and totals

Technologies: Tesseract.js or OCR.Space API

📊 Financial Dashboard

• Track spending per store, category, or month
• Interactive charts with React + Chart.js or Recharts
• Filters by date range and purchase type

👥 User Authentication

• JWT-based login & registration system
• Password hashing with bcrypt

✍️ Tags & Notes

• Users can assign custom tags to receipts:
  e.g., food, entertainment, travel, etc.

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🚀 Tech Stack — MERN

Layer	Tech
🗃️ Database	MongoDB - stores receipts, users, data
🔌 Backend	Node.js + Express - API, OCR, auth
🎨 Frontend	React + Vite - modern and fast UI
🔍 OCR	Tesseract.js or OCR API

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💡 Future Ideas

• 💳 Automatic categorization of spending
• 📦 Receipt itemization
• 📁 Export to PDF/CSV
• 📱 Mobile support with React Native or PWA

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📌 License

MIT — Feel free to use and adapt for your own projects!