This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle HisabAI reduces repetitive paperwork for freelancers, consultants and small businesses. Users can create invoice PDFs, manage client details and extract expense information from receipts. It is designed for people who need a simple, affordable alternative to complex accounting tools and prefer to keep their financial documents on their own computers.
Explore the source code, setup instructions and implementation:
https://github.com/BharatwaleJain/HisabAI Built with Python, FastAPI, SQLite, Jinja2 and ReportLab, HisabAI provides invoice generation, local record storage, receipt imports and CSV exports. For AI-powered receipt extraction, it uses the open-weight Llama 3.1 8B model through Ollama. A rule-based fallback is available when Ollama is disabled or unavailable. AI inference runs locally, without a remote AI provider configured.
Open innovation makes AI more accessible to small businesses. Open-weight models and local inference allow users to experiment with AI without depending on paid hosted-model APIs or sending financial documents to remote AI services. Because the project is open source, developers can inspect, adapt and extend it with new models, document formats and features.