EasiPeasi Expense Snap

Home Page
Key Features
Add an Expense
Your Expense History
Receipt History

Inspiration

After moving in together as roommates, we quickly realized the hassle of splitting grocery expenses. This led to the creation of EasiPeasi Expense Snap, a financial tool designed to simplify budgeting and expense tracking. With intelligent receipt scanning, seamless expense management, and insightful trend analysis, managing your finances has never been easier.

What it does

EasiPeasi Expense Snap empowers users to effortlessly upload images of their receipts, which are automatically scanned to extract essential details such as items, prices, and dates. The app tracks expenses over time, categorizes them into meaningful groups, and visualizes trends through engaging graphs and charts. This provides users with actionable insights, enabling them to make informed financial decisions and maintain better control over their spending habits.

How we built it

Frontend: HTML, CSS, JS, React

Backend: OpenCV, Google-Cloud, Python

Challenges we ran into

Learning a new framework like React was initially a struggle, but after attending a workshop, we were able to complete the project successfully.

While developing the receipt image-to-text feature, we faced challenges with OpenCV struggling to recognize receipts against light backgrounds. Our solution was to require users to upload images with dark backgrounds for better recognition.

We also encountered issues with text extraction. After two unsuccessful attempts using Python’s OCR (Tesseract) and Amazon Textract, we finally found success with the Google Cloud Vision API, which provided accurate image-to-text transcriptions for our data-organization scripts.

Please click to read more about our backend issues. https://tlstmdgk.github.io/

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The dynamic and responsive UI of the website Gaining proficiency in OpenCV and Google Cloud technologies

What we learned

We learned how to effectively use React, manage Git version control, utilize the OpenCV library, and collaborate under pressure with a team, prioritizing tasks critical to our web application.

What's next for EasiPeasi Expense Snap

We plan to integrate additional features that we initially envisioned but couldn't complete within the 24-hour timeframe of Technica, starting with the integration of the front end and back end.

Built With

Submitted to

Technica 2024

Created by

I served as a Front End designer, specializing in the Home Page, where I ensured a seamless and responsive UI design while effectively showcasing the key features of our web application.

Ivy Lu
I developed the user dashboard, implementing a expense tracking system that allows users to easily add, view, and manage both expenses and receipts with a clean, intuitive interface.

Emily Chen
I experimented with the backend setup and API integration using Terraform on AWS.

Seungha Shin
I had the opportunity to work with OpenCV and the Google Cloud Vision API for the first time, primarily developing the back-end, receipt image-processing portion of this project.

Annie Zhou