Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News.

I built this project because I wanted a real backend-style portfolio app that takes messy receipt text and turns it into clean, structured data through an API, using a job/status flow like many ...

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What if you could create a fully functional app, complete with data storage, file hosting, forms, and sharing, without ever needing a backend? In this overview, Your ...

Tabscanner SDK from 2019. Still useful as this is around the time that we first held the most accurate OCR for receipts at 96% on core line item data. The Tabscanner API has now completely replaced ...

Google will deprecate the Privacy Sandbox APIs in Chrome 144 and remove them in Chrome 150. Third-party cookies will stay active in Chrome. Google has ended its ...

Google Ads and Meta Ads make campaign management look easy. Their interfaces simplify daily work – adjusting budgets, reviewing performance, launching new creatives – but that simplicity also hides ...

You can access the Gemini API key for free and without having to set up cloud billing. Google has made the process straightforward. Currently, Google is offering Gemini Pro models for both text and ...

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...

This ultimate Microsoft Forms vs Google Forms comparison will help you choose the appropriate form-making app for personal or business use. At first glance, both apps appear similar, convenient to use ...

One of the lesser-known apps in the Google Drive online suite is Google Forms. It's an easy, intuitive way to create a web form for other people to enter information into. You can use it for employee ...