DropSheet / Doesn’t upload
A receipt scanner that doesn’t upload
Most receipt scanners need your photo on their server. That is how they read it. DropSheet does the job on your computer. Nothing uploaded.
Offline OCR, not a cloud service
The text on each receipt is read by an OCR engine that runs inside your browser. The first visit loads the reading libraries from this site; after that the tool keeps working with the wifi off. There is no server on the other end waiting for the image, so there is nothing to upload and nothing to delete later.
Do receipt scanning apps store my data?
If the app reads a receipt in the cloud, the image left your phone. Storage is the point of an account: open the same slip from another laptop, attach it to a report, search last March. Expensify says it stores digital receipts in the cloud so you do not keep the JPEGs on the device. That is honest product design for a company expense tool. It is also a copy of the dinner you might not want sitting in a vendor database.
How long they keep it is in their privacy policy, not in the App Store blurb. Policies change. You cannot watch the file from the marketing site.
Is it safe to upload receipts to an app?
Safe for the company: they have a policy, a SOC report, a lawyer. Safe for you depends what is on the slip. Pharmacies. Card last-fours. A place you would rather not explain. Uploading is convenient. It is not private. If the unease is the reason you searched this, do not soothe it with a toggle labeled “privacy mode” that still posts the image.
What OCR-as-a-service actually does
OCR-as-a-service means: send the picture, get text back. Google Vision, AWS Textract, Veryfi, and in-house scanners all take that shape. The pixels go to a machine you do not run. The vendor may log the request. They may train on it if the contract allows. “We don’t sell your data” is not the same as “we never saw the photo.”
Quoted policies, with links: where receipt scanning apps actually send your data.
DropSheet’s English reading files are hosted on this site. Your receipt is not in that request. The photo is read in the tab.
Where the file goes, in one table
| Step | Typical cloud app | DropSheet |
|---|---|---|
| You drop a photo | Uploaded | Stays in this tab |
| Reading | Their server, or a vendor’s | This browser |
| The image later | In their receipt store, if they keep one | Gone when you close the tab, unless you saved the export |
| Account | Usually required | None. License lives in this browser |
Receipts to Excel without uploading
Drop a receipt photo or PDF. The row is built in this tab. Export Excel or CSV. That is receipts to Excel without uploading.
CSV is the same drop: one flat file. A receipt photo to CSV, nothing uploaded, is not a second product. The picture never leaves the computer.
What DropSheet is not
Not Expensify. Not a company card feed. Not the app you pick when twelve people need to submit expenses to finance. That job wants the cloud. This is a shoebox on one computer: photos and PDFs in, Excel or CSV out. The privacy page is the short version of the same fact.
Four sample rows are already loaded. Drop one of your own on top of them.
Receipt upload FAQ
Do receipt scanning apps store my data?
Cloud apps have to, at least while they read the photo. The image is sent to their servers so OCR can run. Many keep it so you can open the receipt later from another device. Read their privacy policy for how long.
Is it safe to upload receipts to an app?
It is a trade: convenience for a copy of the slip living on someone else’s computer. Pharmacies, dinners, card last-fours. That is personal. If that makes you uneasy, do not upload. Use a local reader.
What does OCR-as-a-service mean for my data?
The photo is posted to a server that returns vendor, date, and total. That server saw the image. DropSheet does not call an OCR API with your receipt. Reading runs in the browser.
Does DropSheet upload receipts?
No. Photos, PDFs, and pasted email stay on your computer. No account. No receipt cloud.
Can I convert a receipt photo to CSV, nothing uploaded?
Yes. Drop the photo on this page. Reading stays on your computer. Export CSV, or Excel with a By category sheet. The file never leaves the computer.
Mike Printz · [email protected]