Search your receipts
Full-text search across vendors, line items, notes, categories, sender addresses, and the OCR'd text of every receipt — with exact-match phrases when you need them.
Where to search
- The Search page — click Search in the left sidebar, or go to /search. Results appear as you type (after a brief pause), each with a snippet showing why it matched.
- The Receipts list filter — the search box at the top of Receipts uses the same engine and combines with the year, category, tag, source, and date filters. Use the × button in the field to clear it.
Both work without JavaScript too — type your query and press the Search button.
What gets searched
One query covers everything The Paper Keep knows about a receipt:
- Vendor name
- Line items — item names on the receipt
- Item tags
- Category name
- Notes
- Email sender — the address a receipt email came from
- Receipt content — the full OCR'd text extracted from the original file
Terms are stemmed and prefix-matched, so subscript finds subscription and subscriptions. Results are ranked by relevance, with the best 50 shown.
Exact matches with quotes
Wrap a phrase in double quotes to require a literal match instead of stemmed matching:
"booking.com"— finds receipts containing exactly that text, including in email sender addresses.hotel "booking.com"— combines both: the free term hotel plus the exact phrase. All parts must match.
Quotes are the way to search for things full-text search normally mangles — domain names, order numbers, or exact product codes.
Reading the results
Each result on the Search page carries a small label showing where the query matched — in vendor, in items, in tags, in category, in notes, in email, or in receipt content — plus a snippet with the matched terms highlighted.
This explains surprising hits: a receipt can surface because the term appears in the OCR'd text of the original document, even when the vendor and notes look unrelated.