Who needs to check receipts
- Finance and expense teams reviewing reimbursement claims.
- Online sellers handling refund or return requests with a “proof of purchase” photo.
- Landlords and small businesses accepting payment screenshots.
- Anyone shown a receipt as proof that money changed hands.
Step 1: check the image itself
Upload the receipt above. A genuine photo straight from a phone camera rarely carries AI Content Credentials; an image exported from some AI tools does. If there are no credentials (common for photos sent by chat), the pattern model gives a likelihood that the image was generated.
A low AI score does not make a receipt genuine — someone can edit a real receipt in a photo editor without any AI. That's why step 2 matters.
Step 2: the manual checks that catch most fakes
- Do the maths. Add the line items, apply the tax rate for that city or state, and compare with the total. Generated receipts often get arithmetic subtly wrong.
- Check the merchant.Does the store exist at that address? Does the phone number belong to it? Is the store number format consistent with the chain's other receipts?
- Check date and time. Was the store open? Does the day of the week match the date?
- Look at the printing.Thermal receipts have one font and consistent spacing. Mixed fonts, letters that don't sit on a line, or blurry text next to sharp text are warning signs.
- Match the payment.The last four card digits and the transaction amount should match the card or bank statement, and the authorisation code should look like the processor's format.
- Ask for the original. A real customer can usually forward the e-receipt email or show the transaction in their banking app.
If you think a receipt is fake
Don't accuse anyone on a detector score alone. Ask for supporting evidence first. If you need a record of what you checked, Procan download a PDF report with the result, the evidence behind it and the file's SHA-256 fingerprint.
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