Fake Receipt AIR Application

Here is a fun little AIR application that I made to create fake receipts. Actually I use it to create receipts when I lose the originals. Our new expense system allows us to submit JPEGs of our receipts online. Lots of times I lose small receipts for things like meals or coffee so this does the trick nicely. You simply edit the dynamic text fields and then click Export JPEG to save it to the desktop.

This application could be taken a lot further so feel free to grab the source files and use it as the base for something bigger.

Comments

  1. November 2nd, 2008 | 2:31 am

    Hahaha! Nice one Lee! I can see the headlines tomorrow:

    “ADOBE PLATFORM EVANGELIST IN FIERCE BATTLE OVER RECEIPTS WITH MCDONALDS”

    You have some crazy ideas dude. I always enjoy your blog. And you post often!! No more stale RSS feeds like most other development blogs.

    Keep well.

  2. November 2nd, 2008 | 2:35 am

    I can see a few people getting in trouble with the taxman ;)

  3. November 2nd, 2008 | 3:24 am

    Haha this sounds like it could come in handy!
    Thanks for the source, Lee!

  4. November 2nd, 2008 | 4:11 am

    Hahahhaha you are a cheater Lee !!!

    Nice Appli !
    Thanks
    JP

  5. Mr. T
    November 2nd, 2008 | 4:53 am

    Hi Lee,

    wouldn’t making fake bills be considered illegal?

    You might want to add, that this method is only valid in USA.

    Nice app by the way ;-)

  6. November 2nd, 2008 | 7:56 am

    So your bosses read your blog? :P

  7. November 2nd, 2008 | 8:54 am

    what about adding a feature for listing wine … It often happens to drink a good wine but forget the name, brand and year.
    Cool mate!!

    see you at MAX
    ciao

  8. vitaLee
    November 2nd, 2008 | 9:11 am

    thanks Lee

  9. Matt
    November 2nd, 2008 | 9:56 am

    Smart choice going with 2 large fries and the big mac. I do love those McDonald’s fries. Lee, I hope you don’t get fired from Adobe for submitting fake expense reports.

  10. November 2nd, 2008 | 11:10 am

    Give me 5 minutes to send a note to hr@adobe.com :)
    Very useful app BTW… The best Gangsta AIR app ever.

  11. chris
    November 2nd, 2008 | 11:17 am

    You never cease to amaze me. That is a pretty cool idea. It’s funny, I just returned from Florida and I had the same issue. All of the tolls and stuff I could get reimbursed for are either missing or crumbled up. This is very practical actually. Nice job.

  12. November 2nd, 2008 | 11:57 am

    good zod this is perfect. it even looks better than my photoshop template I had made for this exact purpose. thanks, lee.

  13. Mr. Non-Existant
    November 2nd, 2008 | 2:41 pm

    Just like chris, I had a Photoshop template set up for this purpose. I’ll have to alter the code for £ not $, but it’s a great little utility that I’ll do my best to have some fun with. :)

  14. noj
    November 2nd, 2008 | 4:52 pm

    lol!! you should include this in the AIR Showcase. with a note underneath (Use this at your own risk!!)

  15. Clem
    November 3rd, 2008 | 2:59 am

    Nice idea, the font’s not embedded here within the FLA.

  16. pallzoltan
    November 3rd, 2008 | 6:42 am

    it fits very well next to the FMS icon :D

  17. November 3rd, 2008 | 7:18 am

    I believe if I was creating fake receipts, even if they were replacement receipts, I would want to keep that secret.

  18. Scott Petrovic
    November 3rd, 2008 | 7:30 am

    interesting idea. Technology seems to have no limits to what it can do.

  19. November 5th, 2008 | 2:50 am

    The accounting gotta love you :D

  20. Andrew
    November 5th, 2008 | 3:11 pm

    I have been looking to harness the same functionality of exporting a JPEG using PHP/C# but this seems to be much for efficient!

    Lee you are an inspiration! And a life saver may I add!

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  23. November 10th, 2008 | 2:40 pm

    Cool little app Lee. I’d just like to point out that when I view this post at home using Flash Player 10 the AIR install badge just says ‘Loadin…’ and never achieves the ‘Install’ state. At work with Flash 9 it works fine.

  24. Dan
    November 11th, 2008 | 10:17 am

    Good stuff…just lacks foreign currency signs!

  25. December 29th, 2008 | 10:36 am

    we’ve been making quality fake receipts for customers for a while via our website http://www.falseexpense.com – it’s not illegal to make them – some uses may be illegal – see our website for more details

  26. Dinesh
    March 26th, 2009 | 3:20 am

    This app is pretty cool. I couldn’t get the Export JPEG to work.

  27. steve
    June 12th, 2009 | 8:35 am

    Nice app but it won’t export Jpeg??

  28. izzi
    June 13th, 2009 | 4:51 pm

    jpeg export does work, click on export jpeg button and then search for pic on your desktop.

  29. nikki
    June 29th, 2009 | 12:15 pm

    Great work. Was a wonderful way for me to make the receipts I have lost to get reimbursed for travel expenses. Works fine for me..

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  31. July 24th, 2009 | 10:19 pm

    Hi. I am from Belarus, we have no such service, and I think that it will not. It is simply not quite legitimate, I think. Check – this document, at least in our country. The idea of simply wonderful. Cool. (With English translation problems in the Google translator sorry)

  32. kevin
    July 27th, 2009 | 6:44 pm

    thx

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