Receipt scanning apps photograph and create digital versions of your receipts, which you can easily retrieve from a digital filing system. Here we’ll go over everything you need to know about receipt digitization apps: why you should incorporate them into your business, how they work, and which one is the best fit for your business. It might be time to invest in a receipt scanner app. But you can’t do any of these things, because you keep all of your business records in a messy desk drawer, and you’ve lost the receipts for all of them.