Startup Idea: Mobile App for Organizing and Categorizing Receipts for Tax Purpose

Summary for idea #1880
Startup idea to create a mobile app that enables users to scan and categorize their business and personal receipts for simplicity in managing their yearly taxes. The software should leverage OCR technology to prepopulate expense tables and link with popular tax software for seamless integration.
Original submission by someone willing to pay to get a problem solved (not AI)

I do my own taxes each year for my wife and I with a lot of deductions for us both. I work contract/free-lance and have a ton of physical receipts to go through each year, making stacks in various categories for the previous years purchases. I know I can get all these images scanned in come tax time each year, but I envision a solution where I can simply use my mobile phone throughout the year to take pics of receipts/purchases, then easily assign each one to a category (work exp, RX, electronics, software, food, gas, etc.) and then add up the totals from the software/app later. Basically, its a piece of software that lets you tag and categorize images for business and personal use, with a slant on helping a user do their taxes.

I would use software or better yet a mobile app, and even pay for it, if the solution was elegant, seamless and easy to dive into. There has got to be a better way to organize yearly receipts and purchases than using the paper versions.

BONUS for: using OCR tech to pre-populate a spreadsheet (or built in expense table) so that a user only has to "verify" totals in receipts. Tie in to popular tax software apps like HR Block, Turbo Tax.

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