Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

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Smartphones or tablets with a camera (or for that matter a desktop or
laptop with a camera) and the right software can read QR codes and
perform some action.  Currently most software redirects to a website as
the QR code likely contains a URL.  However, making software that takes
in the data and writes to a file of some standard format wouldn't be
much of a change.

There are OCR (optical character recognition) systems available now,
though, that can read receipts (using a document scanner), parse them,
and generate a spreadsheet of the data including store, date, account
and final price.  Turning that into an importable format would probably
not be too difficult.

On 2015-06-22 15:38, Nelson Handcock wrote:
> It would be great to see some development in this area...
> 
> I can download a csv file of invoice or bill data, massage it into the
> format required and import it into Gnucash no problems.
> 
> It would be great if I could download a similar list of payments so that it
> could be then imported. MS Office can generate and display a bar code
> (dunno about a more modern QR code).
> 
> I guess the key info for generating a barcode/QR Code for a payment would
> be the customer ID, payment date, credit account name and amount.
> 
> But what device or method would be required to scan the code, interpret it
> and import it into Gnucash?
> 
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> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Nelson Handcock
> 0409 149919
> 
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:14 AM, 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:
>>
>> 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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