Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

[Colin Law]

On 24 June 2015 at 13:36, dave boland <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> How would this be more practical????
>  I want fast entry into a gnuCash
> account using a qr code and hand scanner/smartphone.  You want me to
> photograph the receipt, run a reader app., the manually enter the data?

Practical because it does not need suppliers to add qr codes
containing the information to the receipts.  Which is not going to
happen in the near future.  For a start I doubt whether most existing
POS printers could produce qr codes.

It would not require the steps you describe.  An extension to gnucash
mobile could use the camera to take the photo and then it could
extract the data.  All you would have to enter is the same data that
you would have to for the qr code.

Colin

> Really!
>
> Dave,
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, at 04:02 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 22 June 2015 at 21:14, dave <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > Ok, I admit I'm a little lazy, and that I have three months of receipts to
>> > enter.  But hey, who has not been there?  I was thinking, it would be great
>> > if there was a really fast way to enter recipts into gnuCash (this is a very
>> > boring task).  Then it hit me - QR codes.  Here is how my idea would work:
>>
>> A more practical idea might be to photograph the receipt and interpret
>> the image to identify as much as possible of the transaction and then
>> manually enter the rest.  One could imagine this as an extension to
>> gnucash mobile.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> >
>> > 1. You go to the store an purchase something.  You get a receipt, and the
>> > receipt has a QR code at the bottom that contains the store name and
>> > location, the date of purchase, the amount, and mayment method.
>> >
>> > 2. Accumulate a few weeks of receipts (like most of us do).
>> >
>> > 3. Start gnuCash, then grap a QR code reader of some sort.  Scan the code,
>> > and gnuCash pops up a screen to enter the account(s), hit Eneter, next receipt.
>> >
>> > Cool - right?
>> >
>> > Of course we would need the cooperation of our friends from Intuit,
>> > retailers, and perhaps some sort of standards org.  Oh, and the gnuCash
>> > developers/community.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > Dave,
>> >
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