Author: Ben SmithBased in Tokyo, Ben Smith is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research at Tabscanner. He pioneers deep learning models specifically designed for receipt optical character recognition (OCR) and document classification, engineering the core AI architectures that enable high-accuracy data extraction.

May 23, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Are You MTD Ready? Here’s Four Steps to Making Tax Digital – Including Receipt Capture

The day when tax will be fully digital is almost upon us. Like Saudi Arabia, the UAE has adopted the GCC’s Unified VAT Agreement on digital taxes for foreign sellers. The VAT rate for digital products is 5%. There is no registration threshold. What does this mean for overseas businesses? They must register for VAT […]

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May 18, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

AI OCR Will Shape the Future of Commercial Operations

Once only whispered in the corridors of technology futurists and visionary innovators, we now stand on the cusp of one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in the history of everything that we’ve known. Tabscanner has already seen a receipt OCR AI breakthrough blasting accuracy rates of our receipt OCR to the highest in teh world. […]

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May 13, 2019 Receipt OCR for Loyalty Rewards, Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Retail Customer Loyalty Programs: Four Innovative Programs that Have Achieved Stellar Results

Want to attract more customers to your retail business? Interested in cultivating long-term brand loyalty? Have you dipped your toe into different forms of brand marketing, only to be left underwhelmed by the achieved ROI? If this sounds familiar, customer loyalty programs could be the ideal solution. Simply put, any retailer intent on providing an […]

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May 3, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) Evolves Beyond Receipt OCR Capture

It’s difficult not to marvel at the technological age we live in. Our personal and professional lives have been enriched to such an extent that should our technological innovation suddenly and without warning stop – or should we be transported back to the pre-technological revolution – it’s a safe bet that most of us would […]

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May 1, 2019 Case Studies, Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Tabscanner Chosen as Receipt OCR Partner for UK Tax Rebate Platform

Tabscanner Receipt OCR for Tax Rebate Platform in UK VAT Rebate For UK Shoppers A recent use case for Tabscanner receipt OCR in the UK was an automated tax rebate platform. The company needed a way to streamline the extraction of large volumes of paper receipts used for claiming VAT back for foreign UK shoppers. […]

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April 12, 2019 Receipt OCR for Loyalty Rewards, Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Huggies Rewards Program: A Prime Example of Effective Customer Loyalty and Receipt Scanning OCR

Ben SmithBased in Tokyo, Ben Smith is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research at Tabscanner. He pioneers deep learning models specifically designed for receipt optical character recognition (OCR) and document classification, engineering the core AI architectures that enable high-accuracy data extraction. www.linkedin.com/in/tokyoben/

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March 22, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Five Commercial Benefits of Receipt Capture Technology

If you’re still undecided on whether mobile receipt capture is best for your business – and are considering a more streamlined approach to accounting – there’s only one question to ask yourself. What’s stopping you integrating the technology into your commercial practices? Managing employee expenses has long been a thorn in the side of businesses […]

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March 14, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

Top Four Accounting Trends to Watch Out For in 2019

2018 saw a momentous shift away from accepted accountancy practices, with many firms focusing their processes around automation and technology. You only need to look at the number of firms embracing cloud and OCR receipt scanner technology to see this. Far from being a passing fad, it appears as though large-scale commercial integration of technology […]

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March 12, 2019 Receipt OCR for Loyalty Rewards, Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

How Multi-Channel Loyalty Schemes Can Bolster Your Brand Sales

The impact customer loyalty schemes have on brand sales cannot be overstated. It’s then, perhaps, somewhat unsurprising that businesses and brands across a breadth of different sectors choose to invest a notable portion of their marketing budget building and maintaining customer loyalty programs – after all, retaining those customers who consistently put their hands in […]

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January 17, 2019 Tabscanner Articles Ben Smith

OCR Receipt Capture Can Help FMCG Businesses to Boost Their Marketing Campaigns in These Four Ways

According to recent statistics, smartphone users spend 90% of their online browsing time using apps, with just 10% spent typing queries into search engines. This may seem like a staggering statistics, but believe us it’s true – and increasing all the time! Not only that, the average mobile user downloads eight or more apps per […]

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