Paper Trail: Receipt Scanner

Paper Trail: Receipt Scanner — Scan the receipt; it is sorted by type, and you file it in your own folders.

A receipt scanner and organizer should work without an account: read the text off the paper, translate it if it is in another language, and put it where you will find it again. This one does all of it on the phone.

Text recognition makes mistakes, especially on faded receipts and handwriting; check any figure you will rely on. Scanning happens on the device — the app does not upload your documents.

WHAT IT DOES
• Photograph a document or pick an image; the document scanner reads the text on the phone
• Translate a paper written in another language on the phone, line by line as printed: download a language once (about 30 MB, over Wi-Fi), then it works offline
• The type is guessed from the words on the page — receipt, invoice, official document — and papers it is unsure about are listed for you to check; move any of them into your own folders
• A spending category for each receipt — groceries, fuel, lodging and more — suggested from its text and marked until you confirm it
• Monthly expense reports as PDF, CSV or Excel, totalled by type and by category
• Other currencies are converted only at the rate you type from your card statement; papers without a rate are listed apart, never guessed
• Searchable text, so a receipt can be found by what it says

WHO IT IS FOR
Anyone keeping receipts for tax, warranty or expenses.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
• No account and no sign-up. The developer collects no personal data and runs no server; Google's ad SDK collects IP, interactions, diagnostics and device IDs.
• Ads pay for the free tier; no interstitial on launch. Paid members see no ads and no ad request is sent.

PRIVACY
Permissions requested: network state, internet, notifications, letting the ads library tell Wi-Fi from mobile data, restarting tasks after a reboot, vibration, keeping the phone awake while a task runs, buying a paid membership through Google Play and ads in the free tier.

LIMITS — honestly
• Totals reflect exactly your documents and folders: what you left out is not counted.
• There is no cloud backup; take the Settings backup before you change phones.

This app reads NO outside data: every figure comes from the records you enter, kept on your phone and sent to no server.

Paper Trail: Receipt Scanner is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by any institution, brand or company it mentions.

Recent changes:
• Your membership is now checked with Google Play every time you open the app, so ad-free use starts or ends without opening Settings.
• The paper limit and translation count on the Scan tab now follow your membership right away.
• Membership plans that are not on sale in Google Play are no longer offered.