The whole receipt.
Not just the total.
Argo Books reads the vendor, the date, every line item, the tax and the total off a photo, then files it as an expense you can check before you save.
Reads a receipt in under ten seconds. 10 free scans a month, no card, and everything stays on your own computer.
Argo Books
Three steps, about ten seconds
Most scanners find the total and stop. Argo Books works down the receipt line by line, so the detail you need at tax time is already there.
Take the photo
Snap the receipt with your phone, or drop in a screenshot, a scan, or a PDF. Printed and handwritten both work.
Let it read
Character recognition lifts the text, then a language model works out what each part means: which line is the vendor, which is tax, which is the total.
Check and save
The fields come back filled in and categorized. Correct anything that needs it, then save it as an expense.
Every receipt filed, and findable
A scanned receipt is not a photo in a folder. It becomes an expense record with the image attached, categorized and dated, sitting alongside the rest of your books. Finding that $342 equipment purchase from last July takes one search.
- Receipts attach to their expense record automatically
- Original images kept next to the extracted data
- Export expense reports for your accountant or your return
Scan your first receipt in about a minute
No account, no credit card, and 10 scans a month on the free plan.
What changes when you stop typing
Hours back every week
Receipt entry is the chore that gets put off until it becomes a weekend. Scanning turns it into something you do at the till.
Numbers that match the paper
Typing by hand is where transposed digits and skipped line items come from. The scanner reads what is printed, and shows you before it saves.
Tax-ready all year
Each scan is categorized and stored with its original image, so the records your accountant asks for already exist in January.
You can finally see the spending
Line-item detail across every receipt shows which suppliers cost you the most, which a shoebox of paper never will.
Your receipts stay on your computer
Argo Books is a desktop application, not a cloud service holding your books on someone else's server. The receipt image and the expense record it creates are written to your machine. Reading the receipt happens through a secure API call, and nothing is kept there afterwards.
- Receipts and expense records stored locally
- No third-party cloud storage of your financial documents
- Nothing retained after the scan returns
Built for the way you actually work
Freelancers
Scan client-related expenses on the spot, so billing starts from a clean record instead of a pile.
Retail and e-commerce
Read supplier invoices line by line and know exactly what you paid for every product on the shelf.
Trades and services
Fuel, materials, equipment. Categorize by job or project and see profit on every engagement.
Anyone at tax time
No January scramble. Every receipt is already scanned, categorized, and ready to hand over.
Before you download
Take a photo of any receipt, or upload an image, and Argo Books uses AI to extract the store name, individual line items, totals, taxes, and date automatically. The extracted data is used to create an expense record with no manual typing. It achieves 99.9% accuracy, so you spend less time on data entry and more time running your business.
Argo Books can scan printed receipts, handwritten receipts, and digital receipt images. It supports photos taken with your phone camera, screenshots, and uploaded image files in common formats like JPG and PNG. Whether it is a crumpled gas station receipt or a clean digital invoice, the AI handles it.
Yes, for the scan itself. Reading the receipt happens through a secure API call, so that step needs a connection. The receipt image and the expense record it creates are written to your own computer either way.
Yes. AI processing uses a secure API call to extract the data, but your receipt images and all extracted information are stored locally on your computer. No receipt data is kept on third-party servers after processing. Your financial records remain fully under your control.
The Free plan includes 10 AI receipt scans per month: enough to get started and see how it works. Premium users get 500 scans per month, which is more than enough for even the busiest small businesses. If you regularly collect receipts, Premium pays for itself in time saved.