📑 Expense Extractor

A full-stack, AI-powered receipt parsing and expense tracking dashboard.

🚀 Features

• AI Receipt Scanning: Upload an image and automatically extract the Store Name, Date, and Amount using Tesseract OCR.
• Manual Entry: Quick-add form for cash transactions or lost receipts.
• Bulk Multiplier: Automatically multiply expenses for recurring/bulk purchases (e.g., buying 10 bus tickets at once).
• Inline Editing: Instantly fix any OCR typos directly inside the data table.
• CSV Export: Download your selected expenses straight to an Excel-ready .csv file with one click.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Vite
• Backend: Python, FastAPI
• Database: SQLite & SQLAlchemy
• AI/OCR: Python Tesseract (pytesseract) & Pillow

💻 How to Run Locally

1. Start the Backend

Navigate to the backend folder and start the FastAPI server:

cd backend
py -m uvicorn main:app --reload

### 2. Start the Frontend
Open a new terminal window, navigate to the `frontend` folder, and start the React server:
```bash
cd frontend
npm run dev

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