Why AI couldn't identify an item

Automatic skip rules

Rasmerk's scanner automatically skips lines that match:

• Payment/summary keywords: Total, Subtotal, Cash, Change, Visa, Mastercard, Amount, Tender
• Tax lines: CGST, SGST, IGST, GST, Tax, Tip (these are extracted separately)
• Receipt metadata: Date, Time, Table, Waiter, Cashier, Receipt, Invoice, Bill
• Contact info: Phone, Mobile, Tel, GSTIN
• Thank-you lines: Thank, Visit

Lines where the item name is shorter than 3 characters are also skipped.

Common OCR failures

• Faded thermal paper — text is light and ML Kit misreads or skips it.
• Crumpled receipts — curved text creates bounding-box confusion.
• Dot-matrix or handwritten receipts — not well-supported.
• Phone number on receipt — 8+ digit sequences are filtered as phone numbers.

Fixes

1. Try Improve with AI mode — AI can handle more ambiguous text.
2. Add the missing item manually after scanning.
3. Retake the photo in better lighting.