Receipt Sorter: an offline bookkeeping tool for freelancers using a local vision model

A developer built Receipt Sorter, a command-line tool that turns folders of receipts and invoices, including PDFs and phone photos, into renamed files, an accountant-ready CSV, and a category summary. It runs entirely on the user's laptop using Qwen2.5-VL 7B served through Ollama, so client documents never go to a cloud service. The target users are freelancers, consultants and small agencies who want to avoid tedious sorting and avoid uploading financial records to third parties. The tool validates extracted amounts, dates and categories, and routes uncertain documents to a review folder. In the author's test, a deliberately blurry receipt was misread with high confidence, which the author flagged as a key limitation for bookkeeping use.