Veryfi
Data
document data extraction API
SHOW HN2021
30points
10comments
#1,147of 2,533 in 2021
Top 46%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Pricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Accurate on a test receipt: currency, items and total correct
From 1 comment
Thanks! I'm impressed, it got the currency and correctly identified items on the receipt. I took a photo of a slightly curled but not wrinkled receipt on a wood desk. The receipt…
rendaw on HN
Landing page looks good
From 1 comment
Super cool, love the landing page — though not yet able to afford to offer this to my clients in my app anytime soon. Your security page has a little typo: "Veryfi’s is machines…
atatatat on HN
Objections
Misread digits on receipts are a serious risk
From 1 comment
How accurate is this? I tried ocr'ing my receipts a while back and the issues with misrecognized numbers were too large to be worth it. Unlike text where a few typos are unlikely…
rendaw on HN
Too expensive for some small customers
From 1 comment
Super cool, love the landing page — though not yet able to afford to offer this to my clients in my app anytime soon. Your security page has a little typo: "Veryfi’s is machines…
atatatat on HN
Requests
Confirm handling of similar characters like O, 0 and 8
From 1 comment
Does it work well with Θ/0/O/o/8
villgax on HN
Questions
How accurate is the OCR on receipts?
From 1 comment
How accurate is this? I tried ocr'ing my receipts a while back and the issues with misrecognized numbers were too large to be worth it. Unlike text where a few typos are unlikely…
rendaw on HN
Is the pricing competitive?
From 1 comment
Unrelated to your question, but as someone not familiar with the space, is that pricing competitive?
ivanvanderbyl on HN
Alternatives named
Amazon Mechanical Turk and human-in-the-loop OCR services
From 1 comment
This API extracts around 50+ fields in standardized JSON format inc 16 column table types (line-items) in seconds: https://www.veryfi.com/data-intelligence/ Alternative solutions…
semerda on HN