Binding: Electronics Brand: The Neat Company Color: White EAN: 0899061000346 Label: The Neat Company Manufacturer: The Neat Company Model: 00346 Publisher: The Neat Company Special Features: nv:Scanner Type^Sheetfed|Optical Resolution^600 dpi|Maximum Document Size^1 x 1 x 14 (up to 30 long)|Interface Connectivity^USB 2.0|Power Source^USB Powered Studio: The Neat Company
Features:
All new proprietary industrial design and software
Automatically extracts key information from scanned receipts; can export to Excel, Quickbooks, TaxCut, and more
Scans are IRS-accepted digital copies, making tax preparation a snap
USB interface also provides power so no AC adapter needed
Product DescriptionNeat Receipts' mobile scanner with Neat Works software gives you an easy-to-use, intuitive application to manage all of your business and personal paperwork. It works where you work. At less than one pound, Neat Receipts is perfect for the road, home, or office. On receipts, it looks for the date, vendor, amount and sales tax. On business cards, it captures all of the contact information: name, company, title, address, phone, email, website, fax, and image. And on documents, the software captures all of the printed text and gives it to you in searchable PDF format. IRS also accepts scanned copies made by the mobile scanner. Export data to PDF, Excel, Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax. New in Version 4.0, the Quick Scan Center lets you scan documents from a system tray application. The Inbox organizes all of your scanned items and lets you verify and then file the information. The application interface has been redesigned to be faster and easier to navigate. Scanner Specifications - Portable color/grayscale/B&W CIS USB powered, no external power supply needed Maximum Resolution - 600 dpi Unit Dimensions - 10.8 W x 1.6 D x 1.3 H; Weight - 10.6 oz Scan Area - 1'' x 1'' x 14'' (up to 30'' long) Speed - approximately 3-4 receipts per minute System Requirements - Microsoft Windows XP or Vista Pentium IV 1.3 GHz or later 1 GB RAM (2 GB highly recommended) 1 GB hard disk space to install CD-ROM drive Available USB port
What Others Say
I like it
I also bought this at Costco and i have no complain. For me this has been a great purchase since i am not good at keeping book about our spending.
After shopping, i place my receipts into my 'new created receipt basket' and on a day when i have some spare time i scan it all in. I created monthly folders so i can see at the end of each month how much i spend on each store. The scanner reads some of store names from the receipt and fills it into the vendor spot and the ones it does not read, you just type it in yourself. I finally see how much a month i put towards groceries, gas, entertainment etc and it was a total surprise and i try to make better choices in spending, seeing how much i already spend.
The scanner also has a option ... Read More
Low Quality Scans
The device itself is nice and small and very cool looking. But the quality of the scans is a very low 200 dpi. Which means it is great if you trying to scan receipts and b&w documents. But the quality of, let's say, a photo ad would be bad. This really limits what you can do with this scanner.
I own a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 that is just plain awesome. I wasn't expecting that from the NeatScan for $150, but I was expecting high resolution scans - maybe just a lot slower. There are much better alternatives out there for a little more money. Check out the Fujitsu Scansnap S300.
A decent product for the price
I bought mine from Costco.
I had my frustration with the calibration. But after the 2nd calibration, everything works fine. I figured I didn't push the calibration card all the way in enough on the 1st try.
I didn't have any of the connection problem with the USB port. I immediately scanned in my piles of receipts that I've saved up for a few years, mostly Costco & Home Depot.
It scanned all my Home Depot receipts beautifully, everything was captured. Ironically, the one that has the most problems are the Costco receipts. It won't capture the vendor's name and the date. But it allows you to manually put that in. 90% of the receipts didn't have that problem.
Mine is going back -- what a peice of junk
The scanner can only scan a few items before it is necessary to disconnect and reconnect the USB. It also makes the whole computer a bit unstable.
Even immediately after calibration, OCR is pretty worthless.
During installation, it puts in an entire installation of SQL Server 2005 that is solely for its own use. Even then, the data is not usable outside of its application.
The only good thing I can say about The Neat Company NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System 4.0 (White) is that the uninstall utility works properly. Once removed, my computer works fine again.
Good product, does what it claims - to organize your receipts
I upgraded from the Neat Receipts 3.0 scanner to the Neat Works 4.0 scanner package recently. I like the Neat Receipts 3.0 scanner, but the upgrade is really worth it.
For starters the quick scan center with the new version takes less system resources and it allows the user to enter receipts in batches, which is efficient. I was able to scan a pile of 277+ receipts in one night, while watching television. Pretty painless and easy to do without requiring a lot of attention, so you can make good use of downtime while you're watching TV / relaxing, etc.
The best part of this is not the physical scanner, it's the software. It allows me to look up previous receipts in a jiffy, and lets me shred / toss old receipts. The physical ... Read More
