AI-Assisted Receipt Scanning for Household Spending Survey

This system helps Statistics Canada collect spending data from survey respondents by automatically reading and extracting information from paper shopping receipts. Instead of writing down every purchase by hand, respondents can submit scanned receipts, which the system processes using optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning. It handles information about household spending habits, but does not process personal identifying information. Statistics Canada discloses the use of AI to survey participants.