Quicken 2006 and Document Scanning

[FredBear]

Although I don't yet have Quicken 2006 (I may pick it up during the
annual special pricing deals that Staples usually offers in December), I
have some questions about scanning of documents.

Because I'm running out of room in my file cabinet (and I'm a packrat
when it comes to bank statements, etc), I've just begun scanning bank
account and mutual fund statements, using PaperPort.

Because I'm a bit paranoid about ID theft, and being on broadband, my
accounts in Quicken have no indication of account numbers or even bank
names, etc. But now that I'm scanning monthly statements, that info is
right there on my hard drive (albeit outside of Quicken) bright as day.

Does Quicken 2006 have some facility to encrypt the items that are
scanned? If not, what do those of you who scan your financial
statements to your hard drive do to protect them from unauthorized
prying eyes?

Finally, will I be able to use the documents that I'm scanning now
(outside of Quicken) with Quicken 2006? In other words, can they be
linked to specific transactions? Or will I need to re-scan them all
over again?

Thanks!

[Ken Blake]

In news:pvadnRQHdfppg4veRVn-qg@comcast.com,
BRH <BRH> typed:
Does Quicken 2006 have some facility to encrypt the items that are scanned?


Yes.

Finally, will I be able to use the documents that I'm scanning now (outside of Quicken) with Quicken 2006? In other words, can they be linked to specific transactions?


Yes. You actually can't do the scanning inside Quicken. You just
link a scanned image to a transaction.

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Ken Blake
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[Margaret Wilson]

And Quicken then "copies" the image and stores it in a subdirectory within a
directory named "Attach". The Attach directory is a subdirectory within the
directory that holds your Quicken data files. So Quicken will duplicate all
the data you already have in PaperPort. Personally I think this is a good
way to handle it. That is, sometimes you'll want to pull a receipt based on
a transaction, and sometimes you'll just want to go find a particular
document and won't remember the transaction to which its attached. In that
case, having your PaperPort "file cabinet" is a good thing. :-)

A fellow PaperPort user,

Margaret

"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:11hca6ch566qo86@corp.supernews.com... In news:pvadnRQHdfppg4veRVn-qg@comcast.com, BRH <BRH> typed: Does Quicken 2006 have some facility to encrypt the items that are scanned? Yes. Finally, will I be able to use the documents that I'm scanning now (outside of Quicken) with Quicken 2006? In other words, can they be linked to specific transactions? Yes. You actually can't do the scanning inside Quicken. You just link a scanned image to a transaction. -- Ken Blake Please reply to the newsgroup

[Derek Lyons]

BRH <BRH> wrote:Because I'm a bit paranoid about ID theft, and being on broadband, myaccounts in Quicken have no indication of account numbers or even banknames, etc. But now that I'm scanning monthly statements, that info isright there on my hard drive (albeit outside of Quicken) bright as day.

If you are running Zone Alarm or the like - there should not be a
problem.

D.
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[JMC]

BRH wrote: Although I don't yet have Quicken 2006 (I may pick it up during the annual special pricing deals that Staples usually offers in December), I have some questions about scanning of documents. Because I'm running out of room in my file cabinet (and I'm a packrat when it comes to bank statements, etc), I've just begun scanning bank account and mutual fund statements, using PaperPort. Because I'm a bit paranoid about ID theft, and being on broadband, my accounts in Quicken have no indication of account numbers or even bank names, etc. But now that I'm scanning monthly statements, that info is right there on my hard drive (albeit outside of Quicken) bright as day. Does Quicken 2006 have some facility to encrypt the items that are scanned? If not, what do those of you who scan your financial statements to your hard drive do to protect them from unauthorized prying eyes?



Am not an expert on encryption, but from a simple test I just ran,
would conclude the attachments are not 'protected'. I have PDF files
[statements] attached. Using Acrobat Reader [outside of QW] I was able
to navugate to the attachment subdirectory and open a statement.


Finally, will I be able to use the documents that I'm scanning now (outside of Quicken) with Quicken 2006? In other words, can they be linked to specific transactions? Or will I need to re-scan them all over again? Thanks!

[John Pollard]

JM wrote:

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Am not an expert on encryption, but from a simple test I just ran, would conclude the attachments are not 'protected'. I have PDF files [statements] attached. Using Acrobat Reader [outside of QW] I was able to navugate to the attachment subdirectory and open a statement.

I haven't tested it, but in the Quicken attachment viewer window
for an unencrypted attachment there is an option saying, "This
attachment can be viewed outside of Quicken. Would you like to
encrypt it?" Where "encrypt it" is a link to cause the
encryption to occur. Following encryption, the two sentences
offer the opposite information/choice.

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[JMC]

Thanks John - hadn't picked up on this.

[Mike B]

"JM" <zado_38@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1125535494.593746.95780@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com BRH wrote: Although I don't yet have Quicken 2006 (I may pick it up during the annual special pricing deals that Staples usually offers in December), I have some questions about scanning of documents. Because I'm running out of room in my file cabinet (and I'm a packrat when it comes to bank statements, etc), I've just begun scanning bank account and mutual fund statements, using PaperPort. Because I'm a bit paranoid about ID theft, and being on broadband, my accounts in Quicken have no indication of account numbers or even bank names, etc. But now that I'm scanning monthly statements, that info is right there on my hard drive (albeit outside of Quicken) bright as day. Does Quicken 2006 have some facility to encrypt the items that are scanned? If not, what do those of you who scan your financial statements to your hard drive do to protect them from unauthorized prying eyes? Am not an expert on encryption, but from a simple test I just ran, would conclude the attachments are not 'protected'. I have PDF files [statements] attached. Using Acrobat Reader [outside of QW] I was able to navugate to the attachment subdirectory and open a statement.

There is an option on each of the three transaction attachment screens to
encrypt the image. Very CPU intensive processing.

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Mike B