Apple Intelligence receipt reading in ReceiptBook: what it fills in

ReceiptBook reads every receipt with fixed rules first: Apple's on-device text recognition, followed by pattern matching for totals, dates, VAT and vendor names in seven languages. That handles most receipts. Apple Intelligence is a second opinion for the ones the rules struggle with, such as an unusual layout or a vendor name that only appears as a logo. It runs on your iPhone, like everything else in the app, and it follows the same rule: nothing is guessed silently.

When it runs

All of these have to be true:

• ReceiptBook Pro is on.
• The iPhone runs iOS 26 and supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on and its model ready.
• The receipt's language is one the model supports. If not, the regular reading stands.
• The document is not an XML e-invoice or a PDF with embedded e-invoice data. Those are read exactly from their data, so a model would add nothing.
• Something is missing or uncertain: the vendor, date or total is below the confidence ReceiptBook trusts, the invoice number wasn't found, or no category was picked.

A clean receipt that the rules read with confidence, with a category from one of your rules, is filed without the model being asked at all.

What it can fill in

The model is given the text of the receipt and asked for the vendor, the date, the total, the currency, the invoice number and a category. For the category, it chooses from the standard list and from Your categories, the custom categories you made, so a receipt can land directly in, say, a client project category you set up.

Two details keep the numbers honest. The model copies values as printed, and ReceiptBook parses amounts and dates itself, so money never passes through a guess at decimals. And a date the model returns that is far in the past or after tomorrow is ignored.

A value it found on its own, and a category it picked, is labeled Apple Intelligence as its source, next to labels like Read from scan and Your rule. The field sources post lists them all.

Agree, disagree, or found alone

ReceiptBook combines the two readings field by field:

The last row is the important one. A value found only by the model is used but never trusted without you looking at it. The one exception is a vendor name that matches a merchant ReceiptBook already knows, which counts as well read. Categories from the model only fill an empty category; they never replace one from your rules or one you picked.

Where it sits among categories

Categories are chosen in a fixed order: your vendor rules, then your Category rules, then the automatic keyword and merchant matching (Pro, shown as Suggested), and last Apple Intelligence. Rules always win. The rules post shows how to set them up so the model is rarely needed.

Dictated notes and Suggest purpose and attendees

Meals and trips often need a note: what the expense was for and who was there. In the note field, the Dictate button turns your speech into text on the iPhone; your voice is not uploaded. Dictation is free and works on iOS 18 and later wherever the language can be transcribed on the device.

With Pro on iOS 26, a note can go one step further. Tap Suggest purpose and attendees and Apple Intelligence turns what you said into Purpose and Attendees lines. The result is shown in a card labeled Suggested by Apple Intelligence, with Add to note or Not now. Nothing goes into the note until you add it.

FAQ

Download ReceiptBook and let the rules, and your iPhone, do the reading.