How To Hack Bookkeeping
A guide started by Paul Brown on how to make bookkeeping suck less.
Contents
Making It Easier To Find Receipts
Step 1
Buy an almost regrettably expensive receipt scanner.
- Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 ($420)
Step 2
Acquire a copy of Adobe Acrobat X Pro (at least).
Step 3
Copy all of the receipts with the scanner, use Adobe to split the giant PDF into individual receipts (Tools -> Pages -> Split Document), then use Adobe's OCR on all of the files (Tools -> Recognize Text -> In Multiple Files).
Step 4
Use Adobe's "Advanced Search" (Shift + CTRL + F) to search the folder of OCR'ed receipts.
Use Macros
- Use AutoScriptWriter to record macros: http://www.autohotkey.com/download/AutoHotkey.zip
- Play them back using Autohotkey