Receipt Scanner Recommendations

[sal]

The Google Drive app has a scan function (you take a photo of the receipt).

You can add multiple photos to one PDF file, and it all gets stored on your Google Drive account in the cloud.

15GB free, or pay US$2/mth for 100GB. Store all your other crap there too, all sync'd to your laptops/desktops.

This ^^

Personally i'm using the mobile app of IOB which uploads the pictures to Dropbox and attaches them to expenses in IOB.

[heyya99]

There is a thread on this earlier this year, have a search

I searched for 'receipt scanner' and nothing relevant came up but thanks for staing the obvious.

[FiveTimes]

Disagree - I'm using CamScanner (As previously recommended here) and it's fantastic for saving receipts for accounting purposes.

I've just downloaded this and its seems quite good.

[TheFaQQer]

Taking a photo seems OK if it's a small enough receipt, but if you've bought lots of things from Staples (for example) then it's all on a big long receipt, so you get lots of background.

Unless you manually crop out the background before converting it to a PDF, which seems like too much hassle for my liking.

I whack mine through the scanner in a batch each month and save the one PDF.

[PerfectStorm]

Expensify is an app designed for just this purpose which scans and also outputs to spreadsheet, detects the vendor name and amount etc

[Boney M]

I searched for 'receipt scanner' and nothing relevant came up but thanks for staing the obvious.

Well maybe use different search terms and you will get the obvious

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...-receipts.html

[unixman]

I wouldn't go Google, personally. If they withdraw the service, pop goes your company records. Just get a wireless printer/scanner and use that. Mine hardly ever prints nowadays, printing itself seems to be a thing of the past.

And do some off site backups, none of yer cloud cobblers.

[sal]

I wouldn't go Google, personally. If they withdraw the service, pop goes your company records. Just get a wireless printer/scanner and use that. Mine hardly ever prints nowadays, printing itself seems to be a thing of the past.

And do some off site backups, none of yer cloud cobblers.

Paranoid much? The chances of your local storage get corrupted/stolen/lost is far grater than Google pulling the plug on Google drive. Besides nothing is stopping you from having local copy and/or off site backup in addition to Google Drive.

Now if your concern is about privacy it's an entirely different matter.

[FatLazyContractor]

Paranoid much? The chances of your local storage get corrupted/stolen/lost is far grater than Google pulling the plug on Google drive. Besides nothing is stopping you from having local copy and/or off site backup in addition to Google Drive.

Now if your concern is about privacy it's an entirely different matter.

I scan all my receipts through my printer/scanner and save them as PDF documents on Dropbox (synced with local folder and shared across multiple devices). Even if Dropbox decides to pull the plug, one will still be left with the local folder with "originals".

[unixman]

Paranoid much? The chances of your local storage get corrupted/stolen/lost is far grater than Google pulling the plug on Google drive. Besides nothing is stopping you from having local copy and/or off site backup in addition to Google Drive.

Tell that to users of Google Reader, Wave, Buzz or any of the other services that Google has peremptorily shuttered in the last few years.
As for Google/Dropbox etc, they are just somebody else's computer and should be treated as such. Just my opinion.