associate jpeg image of reciept with a transaction?

[Ben Pracht]

I'm glad someone else saw the value in something like this.  Personally, 
I'd love to be able to scan receipts in, although that's hard for me 
under Linux given hardware incompatibilities and associate it with a 
given transaction.  I'd also like to be able to associate documents with 
a whole account.  I can think of two scenarios:

*  Buying an item at a store that takes returns like Sears or Walmart.  
Scanning this in would later allow me to print it out and hopefully get 
them to take the receipt along with the merchandise in question.  This 
would allow better organization of paperwork because there might not be 
any or at least possibly less.
*  Buying a big ticket item such as a car or a house with an associated 
loan.  It'd be very nice to scan the loan documents into GnuCash and 
associate it with the loan account.

Personally, I'd think that if it could be done, it'd probably be best to 
put some sort of a link from the XML file to a member in a separate file 
containing compressed jpgs' or gif's or whatever.

Separately, it'd be excruciatingly nice if I can get a globally unique 
ID (within all transactions) that was short enough to write down on 
paper.  That is, an ID generated by GnuCash, separate from any thing 
else such as a check number.  That way, I can go back to the actual 
piece of paper associated with the transaction and figure out what went 
wrong.  There is an ID with every transaction inside the XML file 
itself, but that's several inches long making it too impractical for me 
to hand write on every source document.  Also, there seems to be no way 
of getting that information without looking at the XML file itself.  I'd 
like to see it in the account register and general journal and also in 
reports.  I'd like both the scanning of the receipt and the unique ID, 
but would probably prefer the unique ID first.

Since I'll probably never have the time to contribute or do anything 
other than use GnuCash, I can certainly understand why no one else would 
want to tackle this, however.

Regards,
Ben Pracht