title: Invoice automatic data extraction OCR or PDF
body: <p>I am looking for a solution to extract data from my invoices to send a summary to my accountant.</p>
  <p>There are some companies out there which provide such services for around 20€ a month and invoices are usually very well recognised. But the services I tried don't extract all data I like, or are missing some functionality like an excel export to send the data to my accountant. And paying 20€ a month and having to manage another service for 5 invoices per month didn't appeal to me yet.</p>
  <p>I was researching a little bit and found this stackoverflow question:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4536464/can-anyone-recommend-ocr-software-to-process-invoices">Can anyone recommend OCR software to process invoices?</a></p>
  <p>It's a bit outdated and hope to find some more up to date recommendations. I tried the Ephesoft community edition and it looked very promising at first. But the software has a learning and a review step. Inside the review step the data doesn't seem to be fed back to the learning step. Plus it feels more cumbersome then just doing it by hand. I assume it's made for big businesses.</p>
  <p>I am looking for a simple data extraction software, which learns with each step I show it.</p>
  <p>I also had a look at Apache Tika, but it doesn't seem ready to use with a simple web-interface.</p>
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  <li><p>Do you have some recommendation for payed OCR services? Flexible to extract Total VAT amount/VAT %/ Total Amount/ Total Amount Currency/ VAT Currency/ Which account it was payed with/ Company name. With an export to excel?</p>
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  <li><p>Do you have some recommendations for open source software?</p>
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  <li><p>Do you have some general advice of how you handle your few (less than 50 a year) invoices?</p>
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