Methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture for receipt decoding

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause programmable circuitry to at least:

• extract text from an image of a receipt, the text to include bounding boxes;
• link ones of the bounding boxes to associate horizontally related fields of the receipt represented in the image by:
• selecting a first bounding box;
• identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box;
• adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a data structure, wherein an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes added to the data structure is two;
• connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box, wherein the relationship is at least one of orientation or association relative to the first bounding box;
• when the orientation of the first bounding box is not indicative of a trend, determining a first association between the first bounding box and a first one of the two first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and a second association between the first bounding box and a second one of the two first horizontally aligned bounding boxes;
• selecting one of the two first horizontally aligned bounding boxes based on the first and second associations;
• and
• connecting the first bounding box and the selected one of the two first horizontally aligned bounding boxes.

A method comprising:

• extracting, by executing machine readable instructions with at least one processor, machine readable text from a receipt image, the machine readable text to include bounding boxes;
• associating, by executing the machine readable instructions with the at least one processor, ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a receipt represented in the receipt image by:
• selecting a first bounding box;
• identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box;
• adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a data structure;
• when an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the data structure is one, selecting the one first horizontally aligned bounding box as a second bounding box;
• identifying second horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the second horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the second bounding box;
• adding the second horizontally aligned bounding boxes to the data structure;
• and
• connecting the first bounding box and at least one of the first and second horizontally aligned bounding boxes based on an amount of the first and second horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the data structure and a relationship among the first bounding box and the first and second horizontally aligned bounding boxes.