Looking for android solution to export Ledger with Receipt photos integration

[Jimi Damon]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to save receipts with amounts on my android device with an app, either open source or one-time payment ( no recurring costs) that would allow me to easily export expenses with the appropriate receipt photos.  From these receipt photos I'm looking to generate a ledger entry like the following

2020/05/07 *  Trader Joe's

    ; receipt: file:///home/user/Receipts/trader_joes_receipt_20200507.png 

    Expenses:Groceries              $30.00

    Assets:Checking

I like exporting the receipt as a tag because in Linux Terminals, when you run the reports that are verbose, you get a Hyperlinkable / clickable receipt file that will immediately open for you to view with Control-Click .

I've tried using "My Expenses" with it's export feature, but it was clunky how I had to figure out where the receipt photos were kept...the CSV export didn't include the image file.

I've tried orgzly as well, but it's another one of the same problems where the images aren't exported with the key financial data.  

I've suggested a patch to Orgzly that would allow the storage of inline base64 images but I've not had time to work on that solution.

At this point i'm just looking for a self-contained output file that has the images and the other relevant Ledger information, so a CSV export with inline images would be ideal.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[david whiting]

I don't integrate this with ledger (yet) but I use tiny scanner

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appxy.tinyscanner

to scan all sorts of documents, including receipts. For receipts I name the file with date, short description and amount and then share the file to Google drive, e.g. "2020-05-07 trader joe; groceries $30.pdf"

It wouldn't take much to then have a little script that parsed the file name to create a transaction. That wouldn't give you each item on the receipt, if that is what you want, but it would give the total amount as per your example.

You could also do this with the phone camera and just name the photo in a similar fashion.

David

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[POliveira]

Hi Jimmy,

Have you checked Wally (http://wally.me/)?

I believe it meets your requirements.

Regards,

P.