Uploading Long Receipts

Anyone have any tips on how to upload long receipts for reports. I'm dealing with this on two receipts from this weekend. I took copies of the front and back on one of them but for some reason this particular MSC only allows one photo upload. Go figure. If I take a picture of the whole receipt in one photo, it will be unreadable.

I'm contacting my schedulers on this issue but thought I'd ask here as surely I can't be the only person to run across this issue.

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For long receipts, like the ones from the post office, I cut them in half and lay them side by side and take a photo or scan them.

If it is a grocery store shop, I have either cut them in half and put side by side, or if this is still unreadable have folded the receipts to show both the top part with store name, address and number and bottom part with payment, loyalty card info, etc. I figure they really don't care how much deodorant or cheese I bought since there was not a requirement for a specific purchase.

All you need is the top and bottom portion of the receipt. I usually just fold it if necessary. Usually the print in the middle is useless. I use a NEAT scanner (mobile) which sizes all receipts, works great. You can scan several receipts in a row and just jpeg them. Simple. It cost about $100, well worth every dime. Just plug(UBS) it into your computer. www.neatco.com
10.8"W x 1.6" D x 1.3"H. Scans Receipts, Business Cards and Documents.

Cut it in half and scan it.

You can take several pictures and put them into a Word document then use the Windows Snipping tool to create a jpg file from the screen shot. You can also use cute pdf or primo pdf to create a pdf file from the word doc if the MSC will accept a pdf file

HeatherB Wrote:
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> Anyone have any tips on how to upload long
> receipts for reports. I'm dealing with this on
> two receipts from this weekend. I took copies of
> the front and back on one of them but for some
> reason this particular MSC only allows one photo
> upload. Go figure. If I take a picture of the
> whole receipt in one photo, it will be unreadable.
>
>
> I'm contacting my schedulers on this issue but
> thought I'd ask here as surely I can't be the only
> person to run across this issue.

I cut long receipts in half, then I either scan them as one photo placing them side by side, or if I have to do more than one scan, I group them into a collage to form one photo.

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I take as many scans as are needed, then combine the files side-by-side into an empty file, and upload as one file. The setting to do this on my photo program is "Collage."

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I use Tiny Scan app on my phone--takes a photo of the receipt, converts to a PDF, they can scroll on their computer to see what they need to see. A couple companies only allow photo uploads so then I do as others, fold or cut.

I cut them in half and lay them side-by-side before scanning them.

Regarding some of the other comments about not needing anything except the top and bottom of a receipt, check your requirements carefully. I have two different grocery shops that do care.

One says I must show that I have purchased at least three items. They don't care what I buy, but I have to buy at least three different items totaling at least a certain amount.

The other shop requires specific items to be purchased, such as liquor, meat, produce, and a large item that has to sit on the bottom of the cart, etc...

I just tore one in half tonight and shot them side by side.

I can't believe some of you go to all that trouble to cobble them together in a word document. Find a way to point and shoot and be done with it. You can lay them out side by side and get it in one shot, even if you have to tear a long one into four pieces. But if the details of what you bought are irrelevant to the shop, just fold it over so everything shows but one or two items. They don't need to know your shopping list, just any required purchases.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

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