System, method and non-transitory computer readable medium for parsing receipt information

A method of parsing receipt information using a computer system, the method comprising:

• accessing a plurality of regular expressions associated with a plurality of vendor elements;
• identifying a string of characters in received text that match a character pattern specified by at least one regular expression of the plurality of regular expressions, wherein the at least one regular expression includes metacharacters;
• capturing a value of a vendor element from the received text, wherein the value of the vendor element comprises the string of characters that match the character pattern;
• accessing reference data specifying additional elements associated with the value of the vendor element and information to identify values of the additional elements;
• capturing the values of the additional elements in the received text based on the reference data, wherein the act of capturing the values includes:
• searching the received text for regular expressions associated with the additional elements;
• and
• locating the values of the additional elements using receipt format information associated with the additional elements that specifies locations for the values relative to the regular expressions;
• and
• storing the value of the vendor element and the values of the additional elements in a data store.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed cause at least one processor to perform a method of parsing receipt information, the method comprising:

• accessing a plurality of regular expressions associated with a plurality of vendor elements;
• identifying a string of characters in received text that match a character pattern specified by at least one regular expression of the plurality of regular expressions, wherein the at least one regular expression includes metacharacters;
• capturing a value of a vendor element from the received text, wherein the value of the vendor element comprises the string of characters that match the character pattern;
• accessing reference data specifying additional elements associated with the value of the vendor element and information to identify values of the additional elements;
• capturing the values of the additional elements in the received text based on the reference data, wherein the act of capturing the values includes:
• searching the received text for regular expressions associated with the additional elements;
• and
• locating the values of the additional elements using receipt format information associated with the additional elements that specifies locations for the values relative to the regular expressions;
• and
• storing the value of the vendor element and the values of the additional elements in a data store.