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You are pumped. Your company has given you an app to simplify your tax bookkeeping like receipt handling and expense management. The company behind the app labels itself as “better than a slice of bread”, using backoffice automation with their “smarter than an average bear scan technology”. So you start loading the app with photos […]
Did you hear the news? Expensify uses mechanical turks (human labor) to extract the data from the receipts you trust them to OCR. 2017 was the year this leaked out and one of those mechanical turk found boarding passes, hotel receipts (name, dates, details), medical receipts, addresses, signatures, and Uber receipt with full name, pickup […]
Have you read our blog post on who is spying on your data? You might not know this but there are technology companies which use foreign cheap human labor for backoffice work. This work includes (but not limited to) data extraction from receipts & bills data extraction. Read the blog post on how unsecure this […]
We looked at 5 popular apps to manage expenses (1) Shoeboxed, (2) Receipt Bank, (3) Expensify, (4) Tallie and (5) Veryfi to find the best expense app for you. We tested each to see how well they performed their core function–Collection and identification of receipts. If you want to skip ahead, the Summary finding are […]
