u/Working-Research-699

Hi everyone,

Currently working on a development project and have hit a bit of a wall. I’m trying to build a ML model optimized to parse text from printed Canadian receipts, but finding a localized dataset online has been impossible.

I’m now crowdsourcing some training data and would love your help. If you have any paper receipts lying around and wouldn’t mind snapping a quick, clear photo of them, and sending it to me, it would be a massive help.

The receipts should have merchant name, list of items and their individual costs, totals, subtotals, taxes.

Please feel free to blackout any sensitive info. You can drop it in the comments or send them directly to my inbox via DM.

For anyone in the software/data science space, I’d also love to hear any tips you might have on overcoming localized OCR hurdles.

Thanks everyone!!

Anyone else in the Beltline / 17th Ave area getting seriously worn down by the constant late-night exhaust noise?

I’m talking about the repeated revving, racing, crackle tunes, and motorcycles echoing through downtown between roughly 10pm–4am every weekend. The revvs are so loud those are most likely illegal exhausts.

I’ve seen multiple Reddit threads complaining about the revv noise over the years with hundreds of upvotes, so clearly this isn’t just a few people complaining.

Instead of just venting online, I’m wondering if residents would be interested in organizing something more constructive:

a shared log of hotspots/times,
a collective letter or petition,
coordinated 311 complaints,
or contacting councillors as a group.

If enough people are interested, I can set up a shared document for hotspot logs and a petition draft.

Curious how many people would actually participate.