Abandoned?

[e-t-l]

@danschultzer This repo isn't being maintained anymore, is it?

It's too bad, it looks like a fantastic project, and really the only FOSS receipt scanner around that actually works (Smart Receipts, the closest runner up, hasn't actually successfully implemented OCR yet afaik). The 1.0.0 goal looks really cool, especially with the inclusion of Tesseract 4, but if it's not feasible then it's not feasible :/

The thing that makes me saddest is that there's no Windows release. As an Electron app, it's awesome that this is platform-independent, but after a few hours of research I still have no idea how I'd actually go about building this using Electron-Builder and npm. Is there any chance you could publish a Windows release of the current version (or help me figure out how to do it?)

[danschultzer]

Thanks @e-t-l!

You're correct, this project is no longer maintained. There's likely a bunch of work to be done to get it up to date with electron and switching out the opencv node project, the project is very much as-is with no further development planned.

I imagine what causes issues with the build is that this project is using very old npm/electron build releases (4-5 years). You will probably need to install an npm version from 2018, and follow the electron builder instructions from then. Do be aware that there are likely security flaws with these old releases, but using any newer releases you'll probably have to make a lot of changes to this project to get it working.