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 <dartm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:42 AM, jeffrey black <beastmaster...@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@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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@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.
