Zero-Cost, 100% Private: Building a Local Invoice & Receipt Sorter with Open-Source AI
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built An offline, zero-cost Python invoice and receipt sorter designed to automate expense tracking for freelancers and side hustles. It processes financial documents locally, categorizes vendors, and out

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle
An offline, zero-cost Python invoice and receipt sorter designed to automate expense tracking for freelancers and side hustles. It processes financial documents locally, categorizes vendors, and outputs structured JSON without sending any data to cloud-based APIs or third-party servers.
The pipeline is built using a lightweight Python script leveraging open-source libraries and local file system traversal: