Read merchant, date and total from every receipt

Where receipt extraction usually starts

Most teams pass receipt text from their text recognition step to a frontier model and ask for JSON, then fix totals that come back as strings and dates in the wrong order. Every receipt pays frontier prices. A Facet model returns your fields, in your shape, on every receipt.

How it works

1. Describe the task. Paste the prompt you use today, or write it plainly: “From each receipt’s text, return merchant, date as year-month-day, total as a number, and each line item.” Add a few real examples if you have them.
2. Agree on what good looks like. Facet writes plain statements of a good answer, like “the total is the amount paid, after tax and tip”, each with examples. Edit any that are off.
3. Create, then correct. Facet builds the model on its own, in the background, and tests it against every statement before it goes live. When a field comes back wrong, say what it should have been. Facet quotes the fix before it spends anything.

Two ways to use it

• From your agent: connect Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex or VS Code to Facet, then paste:

Use Facet to build a model that reads receipt text and returns merchant, date,
total and line items as JSON. Here are twenty real receipts as text: ... Show me the
draft and the price before you approve anything.

• In your code: keep your OpenAI SDK and change two lines, the address and the model name.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url=os.environ["FACET_BASE_URL"], api_key=os.environ["FACET_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(model="receipt-fields", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": receipt_text}])

Why Facet for receipt extraction

• Made for messy text. It learns the misspellings and broken lines your text recognition step produces.
• The same shape every time. Every answer comes back ready for your database.
• Checked before every update. An update goes live only if it keeps every statement the live version passes, and any update rolls back in one step.
• Yours. Export it any time, free, and run it wherever you like.