associate jpeg image of reciept with a transaction?

[jdebert]

Rich Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at 02:57 PM, jdebert wrote:
> 
>> [...snip...]
>> There are fast optical check scanners available that can handle many 
>> receipts but they are quite expensive, proprietary and only supported 
>> with windoze. They can handle receipts up to 2.75 inches wide. A fast 
>> scanner that can handle up to a seven-inch wide receipt of arbitrary 
>> length, as produced by some stores, is pretty rare though.
> 
> 
> Really??
> 
> I would think that any of those all-in-one fax/printer/scanners would be 
> sufficient.  A sheet of paper, transparent tape and scissors, and you're 
> all set.  You even have a standard size for filing.
> 

It is adequate. But it quickly becomes a very tedious chore.

I don't want to do it anymore. There are better uses for my time.

If I can scan them I won't need to hang out with the bookkeeper so much. 
But scanning has to be easy.

 > (Assuming you don't need OCR reading of the check #, of course)
 >

That would be nice to have. Some of the higher-end check scanners do OCR 
or MICR reads as well as imaging.

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jd

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