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How good is OCR on the iPhone? It seems the ideal solution would be: 1) Take a picture of the bill, 2) It gets split up into items and amounts 3) Select a user and 4) select all of the items that they are responsible (or split if necessary). Great looking site. Good luck.

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I experimented with Tesseract OCR: https://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR/

In my field studies, I found it was not very reliable. Text recognition would often fail even on printed receipts. Also, several of the restaurants I went to used hand-written receipts. So I ultimately decided against OCR. If it had worked well, I do think it would be a nice feature for the app.

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