Read Receipts, Invoices, and Scans Through OCR.space and Your Muse

Through a custom connector, your muse can read the text out of a photo or scan: give it a public link to a receipt, invoice, or scanned letter, and it returns the words as plain text you can check and use.

What it does

The connector adds 2 tools, both read-only. The first reads an image or PDF at a public address and returns the text, one block per page, line breaks kept: receipts, invoices, delivery notes, scanned letters, and photos of documents. Table mode keeps a receipt or table in reading order, line by line. A more accurate setting handles handwriting and complex layouts in 200+ languages, detecting the language itself unless you name one. The second tool turns a scan into a searchable PDF with an invisible text layer over the page, and returns the text plus a download link.

How to use it

1. Start an AnythingMCP account and add the OCR.space connector.
2. Request a free API key on the OCR.space site. It arrives by email. Paste only the key where the connector asks.
3. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
4. Put the file at a public link that opens without a sign-in.
5. Ask the muse to read the link and list what you need, for example every item and price on a receipt, or the number, date, and total on an invoice.
6. To make the scan itself searchable, ask for the searchable PDF and save it as soon as the link arrives.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• An AnythingMCP account with the OCR.space connector added
• A free OCR.space API key
• Your image or PDF at a public link

What to watch for

• The file must be public: the service downloads it itself, so a private drive link or email attachment will fail. Do not put private papers at a public link just to read them.
• On the free plan, files cap at 1 MB and PDFs at 3 pages, with daily and monthly request limits. A searchable PDF link expires after about an hour, and the free version carries a watermark.
• Check numbers by eye before you act on them. A blurry photo can turn one digit into another, and a receipt total is worth a second look.
• This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.