Receipt scanners, recommendations?

[Aaron Laws]

>
> > On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:42 AM, jeffrey black <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am using GnuCash (Windoze version) to track multiple sets of books.
> > My personal, my farm, my wife's business, and for another family members
> > personal and business.  Needless to say I am buried up to my ears in
> > receipts and would like to go paperless by storing the images in
> > GnuCash.  My flatbed scanner works but; is not a reasonable option.
> >
> > Right now, my budget would have to be a maximum of about $400 USD.  I
> > need to scan everything from 2 inch wide thermal receipts up to to full
> > size 8 1/2 X 11  inch receipts.
> >
> > As soon as I can replace several legacy apps I intend to ditch Windoze
> > and move everything over to Unix (probably Ubuntu), so compatibility
> > would be an issue.
> >
> > I would like to hear your recommendations.


 How does this affect gnucash performance? We've heard several times that
gnucash loads everything into memory at startup and operates from there. I
assume that includes the receipt images? How many pages of images does it
take to get up to, say, 800 MB of receipts?