On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 10:32 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > The management of receipts for purchases has become overwhelming here. > > I would like to get a receipt scanner and scan all my receipts and > destroy the paper copies. I've had one or two friends mention the same thing, but: What's going to happen if you need to present your receipt to someone else to make a claim? (Refunds, warranties.) They're not going to accept your printout. It'll be a forgery, as far as they're concerned. Scanning is a slow process. Much slower than sticking a receipt in a decent filing system. I've got nearly twenty years of telephone receipts in my filing cabinet, and they don't require any technical management. Nor do they really take up the amount of room that some people might claim. I could quite easily fit twenty years of phone records, health insurance records, and banking records, all into a box the size of a normal PC, and have room to spare. What about back-ups? More to manage... The only real benefits I can see from digitising such things are: Indexing them in a way you can centrally search for them. Keeping your own copy of those receipts printed in vanishing ink, or self-destroying thermal printouts. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
