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by azemetre 860 days ago
hmm, I guess I have a weekend project now.

And thanks for the heads up about the toxicity, I use to save them all but after the move I simply take a picture with my phone and throw them out.

paperless doesn't seem to be my exact use case but hopefully after it does the OCR transformation it can allow you to make a csv file.

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I'd look into a document scanner for ease of use. They even have ones that auto loads, so no more waiting around. With that said, if you purchase a scanner, it probably already has proprietary OCR, and they have auto feeding ones for many documents. I foolishly bought one not knowing auto feeding was an option. https://youtu.be/fi0ZhTFaW7w I bought a brother 2 sided one since it had Linux drivers.
hmm, IDK if a scanner would help me. I already have pictures of my receipts. I might have to do more research because I feel like there's gotta be something out there where you can just show images of receipts and have it generate a csv of the data.

I'd even pay a decent amount to do it. After doing some more research it seems like MS Office might handle this workflow too in Excel (convert receipt picture to csv data).