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[Gilgamesh]

Is even TurboTax Premier robust enough to report tenders and sales of RSUs, where the original RSU was converted into cash plus shares of an acquiring company, and then sold, and the 1099s show only the cash and the stock sales on separate forms?  I have instructions on how to do lengthy but not complicated calculations to figure out basis and net gain/loss, but then the numbers on Schedule D don't match the 1099s, which seems bad, in terms of potentially tripping an audit flag.  Annoyingly, this is all really just a reporting issue and not a cash issue -- all of the grants and withholdings are already in my W2, and there is only trivial gain/loss.  But I seriously cannot figure out how to report it.  I should hire someone, right?  But I've never hired anyone.  Grrr.

Intrepid Reader: TDubbs

Hi.

She needs them notarized?

He'll notarize them on camera for $500.

No ghey stuff, though.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

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[Slaky]

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[Bort]

Slaky... The internet needs your help:

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[Brownie]

OK, we want to start scanning all of our packing slips into a feed scanner and then have Acrobat or other text recognition software recognize the packing slip number and separate each page as its own file with the packing slip number as its file name. Can this be done?

[ChuckD]

OK, we want to start scanning all of our packing slips into a feed scanner and then have Acrobat or other text recognition software recognize the packing slip number and separate each page as its own file with the packing slip number as its file name. Can this be done?

Of course it's possible, but you'd probably be better suited buying something off the shelf instead of hacking it together.

Just Google for some combination of OCR invoice 'order number' scan script and you should be able to find some vendors. Here's a couple that I found in a few minutes:

http://www.simpleindex.com/Features/index_and_rename_office_documents.asp

The template and dictionary matching capabilities of SimpleIndex's OCR function can be used to extract index information from the text of existing MS Office and PDF files, or any file with an accompanying TXT file.  SimpleIndex® will search the document for matches on unique patterns and value lists, then index the document with the matching data.  Zone coordinates can be set to limit the search area to pre-defined regions on standard forms.  The result is a fully automated indexing and renaming process for all your electronic documents!

http://www.savance.com/Products/eDocSavant.aspx

Since Savance's eDocSavant just monitors new files in specified directories to begin the indexing process, you can leverage your existing multi-function printer or copier. The software is intuitive enough to read fields using bar code or OCR, separate documents when a new order number is read, and lookup information against the synchronized OrderSavant database to create a PDF with the critical information embedded in the file name and PDF attributes.

[Brownie]

OK, we want to start scanning all of our packing slips into a feed scanner and then have Acrobat or other text recognition software recognize the packing slip number and separate each page as its own file with the packing slip number as its file name. Can this be done?

Of course it's possible, but you'd probably be better suited buying something off the shelf instead of hacking it together.

Just Google for some combination of OCR invoice 'order number' scan script and you should be able to find some vendors. Here's a couple that I found in a few minutes:

http://www.simpleindex.com/Features/index_and_rename_office_documents.asp

The template and dictionary matching capabilities of SimpleIndex's OCR function can be used to extract index information from the text of existing MS Office and PDF files, or any file with an accompanying TXT file.  SimpleIndex® will search the document for matches on unique patterns and value lists, then index the document with the matching data.  Zone coordinates can be set to limit the search area to pre-defined regions on standard forms.  The result is a fully automated indexing and renaming process for all your electronic documents!

http://www.savance.com/Products/eDocSavant.aspx

Since Savance's eDocSavant just monitors new files in specified directories to begin the indexing process, you can leverage your existing multi-function printer or copier. The software is intuitive enough to read fields using bar code or OCR, separate documents when a new order number is read, and lookup information against the synchronized OrderSavant database to create a PDF with the critical information embedded in the file name and PDF attributes.

Thank you.

[PenPho]

Preface: I don't have Netflix (or any other streaming video service) and I rarely watch TV, so I don't know about a lot of this, cable-company whoring aside.

Am I wasting my time buying Disney movies for the kids in blu-ray, in terms of a long-term "investment"?

Will there come a time (in the near future) when they'll all be readily available for streaming at a reasonable monthly cost where it makes more sense to do that than to collect the blu-rays so that I always have them at hand when needed? 

I don't really care about the value of the disks and I wouldn't re-sell them or anything, but with their movies only being released from the vault every so often, is it worth constantly jumping on them, or will the same quality (1080p) be available for streaming soon enough that this is waste of time?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I don't really care about the value of the disks and I wouldn't re-sell them or anything...

At least not until they break.

[R-V]

I rarely watch TV

We get it, you're better than us.

[Saul Goodman]

We're still years away from that kind of widespread bandwidth availability. Hell, millions are still stuck with DSL. You should be fine for the next...five years, at least. Netflixers, does your content stream in actual HD? I'd be surprised but that's more likely than Hulu right now.

[Gilgamesh]

We're still years away from that kind of widespread bandwidth availability. Hell, millions are still stuck with DSL. You should be fine for the next...five years, at least. Netflixers, does your content stream in actual HD? I'd be surprised but that's more likely than Hulu right now.

Mine does.  My speed is 16 mps download and 5 mps upload.  Netflix calls it "Xtra-Fine HD" or something like that.

[PenPho]

I rarely watch TV

We get it, you're better than us.

I make my career out of people watching TV, it's certainly not in my benefit to hold myself higher than them.  

[Saul Goodman]

We're still years away from that kind of widespread bandwidth availability. Hell, millions are still stuck with DSL. You should be fine for the next...five years, at least. Netflixers, does your content stream in actual HD? I'd be surprised but that's more likely than Hulu right now.

Mine does.  My speed is 16 mps download and 5 mps upload.  Netflix calls it "Xtra-Fine HD" or something like that.

I see. Closer than I thought then. Heed his words, Pen.

[PenPho]

We're still years away from that kind of widespread bandwidth availability. Hell, millions are still stuck with DSL. You should be fine for the next...five years, at least. Netflixers, does your content stream in actual HD? I'd be surprised but that's more likely than Hulu right now.

Mine does.  My speed is 16 mps download and 5 mps upload.  Netflix calls it "Xtra-Fine HD" or something like that.

Any ideas of the Disney stuff is available?

Didn't know if they restricted availability like they do on DVD.