Receipt scanners, recommendations?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Aaron,

I think it’s just a file URI link. The scans themselves have to be stored on their own in the file system. They images/pdf et cetera aren’t stored in the db. (the default XML I don’t think could handle that anyway)

There shouldn’t be any memory issues in that respect.

I was using the feature a few years ago, but when I discovered there was no indicator of an attachment and no way to correct or change the URI or even remove an attachment, I stopped using it. I think these features have been added, but I thought they weren’t going to be published till 3.0. If they are available now, I’ll certainly start using it again.

I use a Brother ADS-2500W but that’s in the $600 price range. (awesomely fast for multi-page scanning - about 50pp/minute or so) I think they have a cheaper model out now that might suffice. Their linux and Mac drivers work well and the OCR was acceptable.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Dec 21, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Aaron Laws <dartme18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> 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?
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.