SPLIT

Inspiration

At University, we tend to go out to restaurants a lot for big friends gathering. But every single time, we spend as much time talking about our lives than about the bill. For the sake of enjoy more quality time with our friends, we thought of way to make this process of splitting the bill faster.

What it does

Split is a very simple and straightforward app. Take a picture of your receipt, we’ll analyse it and convert it to a simple table. From then on, each person just tap the elements he ate and even shared with some other people, and the magic is done. Everything will be calculated, from sharing starters between some people to service charge and tip splitting.

How we built it

Swift with Microsoft Oxford Project's OCR for text recognition.

Challenges we ran into

Using an OCR is WAY more complicated than we expected. After having used Tesseract, post-image processing, we still didn’t get anything good enough for the product quality we were aiming at. We therefore moved on to using Microsoft’s Project Oxford OCR which was a lot more accurate. Unfortunately, we couldn’t implement it on our iOS devices because of a common problem but we plan on doing it next. Also, the project was meant to be completed by three people, but unfortunately, one of us feeling sick had to go back home. We still did it and (hopefully?) made him proud (and jealous).