Inspiration
We set out to make user experience for buying insurances and teach them about As a group of newbies about insurance about to leave University, we have always been confused about insurance. There is so much complexity to it, so it's not really sure what may be covered by insurance. Vet bills? Electronics? The world of insurance is growing fast yet we didn't even know there are insurance plans that help pay for cat food out there. For this reason, we decided to build an application to easily tell us if we can be insured for what we buy, all by just scanning a receipt.
What it does
The application scans and gets the contents from a receipt using OCR and Computer Vision. It takes this data and finds what can and cannot be insured, returning this output in an easy to read table for a user. The user can then select what they want to insure if they are on such plan, and easily file their claim to StateFarm, reducing the current work needed down to the click of a few buttons, and teaching customers about possible insurance plans they may have not known of before.
How we built it
We built this application using React on the front end and Axios to call the api from the backend. We used Bootstrap for our CSS to make it mobile friendly, and general CSS to make the application more customized. React is also used for the camera and imaging Our backend is built off Tesseract for
Challenges we ran into
Coming up with an idea was the most challenging part for this hackathon. Finding a library to handle OCR
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The app currently is able to convert picture to text and based on that suggest you different type of insurances for the items you purchased. We were able to do Async/await
What we learned
- Learned about OCR and NLP
- Implemented backend in node.js along
- Learned react components and hooks
- Async and await function in javascript
What's next for Insure It
Get public API's to compare receipt items with Statefarm products.
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