Stop losing money to unorganized receipts. In this tutorial, learn how to build a fully automated AI receipt inbox that turns messy phone photos into structured bookkeeping records instantly. We tackle the "messy phone gallery" problem by using n8n and OpenAI Vision to extract merchant names, dates, totals, and taxes automatically. By the end of this video, you’ll have a professional-grade system that renames your files, archives them to Google Drive, and saves the data into an n8n Data Table with built-in de-duplication logic.
What you will learn:
How to trigger workflows using n8n Forms.
Standardizing binary file data with simple code nodes.
Using OpenAI Vision to "read" and categorize receipt images.
Structuring AI output into clean JSON for databases.
Setting up "Upsert" logic to prevent duplicate entries.
Mapping and storing files in the Google Drive ecosystem.