Fast receipt entry into gnuCash

[Colin Law]

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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