On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:14:10PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [John Hasler] > > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. > > Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. :) > > > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > > system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks > > clone. > > It would be interesting if there were a scanner and OCR system > connected to it, for document storage (think invoices) and retrieval. > > One would scan all incoming mail, detect invoices and run OCR on them > to locate vendor and amount, and make the transaction available for > the accountant for assigning of the right account and approval of the > right people. If it in addition could connect semi-automatically to > the electronic bank to schedule the payment, it would save me a lot of > work. :) > > SQL-Ledger is not quite there yet. :)
I'm doing this. I have some bash scripts which call xsane and I just scan in stacks of bills, statements, receipts as files 0000.png, 0001.png, &c. I've written but not yet released a GTK app which allows me to quickly rename and move the files to a form such as: /x/p/d4/PGE/40810/01.png /x/p/d4/Bank/Slips/Cash/40801-McDonalds.png &c. As I previously mentioned, I use my released tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/pim-tb to display downloaded bank statements. A feature I plan to add is the ability to link a filename to the transaction, but that's a lot of unecessary work, since using my directory schema I can pretty quickly find a document. I think people tend to over-construct such systems; you end more being a user of the system than a manager of your own data. I get a lot more done with my little hackish things and bits of perl glue. In particular I hate organizing my schemas according to someone else's tastes. My schemas suit me perfectly; but you'd hate them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
