[Custom Component] Home Organizer (HO-AI) - AI-powered receipt scanning & inventory management (Now in HACS!)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a custom integration I’ve been working on called Home Organizer (HO-AI).

My wife completely refused to use any existing HA inventory apps to keep track of her groceries and home supplies. She hated having to navigate through endless drop-downs, forms, and menus just to log a can of tuna or a pack of batteries. I couldn’t really blame her, so I decided to build a solution with zero friction.

It uses the Google Gemini API to completely automate the data entry. Instead of filling out forms, you just snap a photo of a receipt (supermarket, hardware store, etc.) or upload a PDF. The AI reads the document, extracts the items, categorizes them, assigns an icon, and maps them directly to your virtual HA rooms.

While it started for groceries, it works for literally anything you want to organize—electronics, microcontrollers, craft supplies, cables, or garage tools.

:sparkles: Key Features:

  • :camera_flash: AI Receipt Scanning: Snap a photo or upload a PDF, and the AI handles the rest. No manual entry required.
  • :speaking_head: Natural Language Entry: You can just type “Add 3 AA batteries to the garage” and it handles the database entry.
  • :fried_egg: Pantry-Aware Recipes: Since it knows your exact food stock, you can ask it “What can I make for breakfast?” and it generates a recipe using only what you currently have.
  • :earth_africa: Fully Multilingual: Natively supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and Hebrew (including RTL UI). The AI auto-detects your language.
  • :file_cabinet: Local SQLite DB: All your actual data is stored locally in a SQLite database on your HA instance.

:inbox_tray: Installation

It is completely free, open-source, and was just approved for the default HACS store, so you can easily download it directly from there!

You can check out the source code, screenshots, and the full setup guide on my GitHub: :point_right: GuyAzria/home-organizer on GitHub

I’d love for you guys to try it out. Let me






know what you think here in the thread, and I’m very open to feedback and feature requests!

Made with :heart: for the Home Assistant community.

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Great tool! My wife and I were just talking about a way to do this. I built a scanner to track inventory at home, but wanted a way to bulk upload receipts from Walmart. I did download and get it functioning, it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting with the receipts, I wanted it to just pull out the barcode and look them up and return the item, but doesn’t appear that is what is happening. I’ll continue to play around with it. Thanks for your work on this!