Automate Receipt Data Extraction and Entry into Excel with Power Automate AI Model

Receipt processing is a prebuilt artificial intelligence model available in Power Automate. It’s designed to analyze receipts using cutting-edge optical character recognition (OCR) technology. This model can understand both printed and handwritten text on receipts. Once it reads a receipt, it extracts important information such as the store’s name and address, the transaction’s date and time, and a detailed list of items purchased. For each item, it identifies the name, price, quantity, and total cost. Additionally, it calculates the subtotal (the total before tax), the tax amount, any tip included, and the final total spent. This helps streamline tasks like expense tracking and management.

Let’s delve deeper into this practical example for a better understanding:

At a local general store, the owners use Dynamics 365 CRM to keep customer information. However, keeping track of customers’ purchases and calculating daily profits has been difficult. They used to manually enter each…