From receipt to clean table in five steps
No setup. No account required. The flow below is the entire product — most documents land at "export" in under a minute.
- 01
Upload your document
Drop a PDF, photo, or scan — or paste from clipboard. On mobile, snap a picture or dictate the line items aloud. Free tier allows up to 15 MB per file and 15 MB total per upload session.
Phone cameraLive dictation - 02
AI agents extract the data
Five agents run in sequence — OCR / vision, cleanup, spell-check, translate (optional), and confidence scoring. A sixth verifies the result before showing it.
- 03
De-duplicate & spell-check
One click removes duplicate columns and rows that the AI may have repeated. Spell-check fixes OCR misreads. Both are reversible — your original is untouched.
- 04
Review the flagged fields
Anything below 90% confidence is highlighted. Click any cell to edit. Identical columns get a blue flag; repeated rows get an orange exclamation — fix once and ship.
- 05
Export — CSV, XLS or PDF
One click to download. CSV for spreadsheets, XLS for Excel, PDF for a branded summary. On mobile you can also share straight to email or WhatsApp.
The flow at a glance
Automate with the API — or plug into your AI assistant via MCP
The same 5-agent pipeline is available as a REST API. Send a document (base64 in JSON) to /api/v1/parse or /api/v1/reconstruct and get the same structured result. Or add https://populate.info/mcp as an MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT (developer mode), Cursor, or any MCP client — sign in with your Populate.ai account and the assistant can parse and browse your uploads on your behalf.
Connect Populate.ai to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Populate.ai runs an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Add it once to your AI client and the assistant can parse receipts, reconstruct scans and browse your saved uploads for you — in plain English, without leaving the chat.
- Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
- Paste the endpoint URL above
- Sign in to Populate.ai in the popup and approve
- Ask: "list my recent documents"
- Settings → Connectors → Add (developer mode)
- Paste the endpoint URL, authorize
- Requires Pro/Team/Enterprise plan
- Settings → MCP → Add server
- Paste the endpoint URL, authorize
- Free on all Cursor tiers
- • "Parse this receipt and add it to my October expenses."
- • "List my last 20 uploads and total the amounts by vendor."
- • "Reconstruct this whiteboard photo into a clean meeting note."
- • "For my last 5 invoices, tell me which are missing a GST number."
- • "Read document abc123 and convert it to a JSON payload."
- • "Parse this Hindi bill and translate the headers to English."
- parse_document — document → structured table
- reconstruct_document — scan → formatted doc
- list_documents — browse your recent uploads
- get_document — open one by id
OAuth 2.1 with per-user consent. Each tool call runs as you, subject to your account's data and quota. The AI client never sees your API keys. Revoke access anytime from your account settings or from the AI client's connector list.
Prefer raw code over natural language? Grab a REST API key instead — same pipeline, same account.
Still curious? Read the FAQ.