The Neat Company NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System 4.0 (White) | 
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| Brand: The Neat Company
Category: CE
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New (37) Used (1) from $227.71
Rating:  6 reviews
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 14 x 10 x 4
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
MPN: 00346
Model: 00346
UPC: 899061000346
EAN: 0899061000346
ASIN: B001CQFRPO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 | | • | Highly portable |
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Product Description
Neat 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
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 I like it November 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 to scan in business cards and documents. I have now all available with the click of a button and i like it.
The size is great, makes it easy to put out of sight.
It is a bit pricey but the program it comes with has been making my personal book keeping much easier and i even dare say a bit fun.
4 stars for the price and to have to fill in/correct some info after scanning.
 Low Quality Scans November 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 November 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
To my surprise, it can scan in any form of receipts, not just the skinny ones. For example, all the 1-page repair receipts from the auto dealership and mechanics, it can scan it with no problem at all.
The best part is - now I have peace of mind, knowing that I can find my receipt when I NEED to. I know I can throw away my Costco receipts since they have very liberal return policy but I'm not sure if I can throw away the Home Depot ones since they are such a pain in the )( to deal with.
The only disappointment I have is that it only captures the total expense and tax, it doesn't give you the break-down.
All in all, it's a very useful product - it does solve one of my headaches in life.
 Mine is going back -- what a peice of junk November 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 this product is that the uninstall utility works properly. Once removed, my computer works fine again.
Good product, does what it claims - to organize your receipts November 2, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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 scanner is nice too though. It's definitely not photo quality, but that's not why I bought this package. The scanner works fairly well / quickly for most receipts, a bit better than the silver version even though they're supposedly the same hardware. I find with the older version the USB would fail to be recognized by Windows XP, but no such problems with the new version.
If you want to organize your receipts and keep good records, I highly recommend this package! It's the one of the few products that actually does what it claims to do. Excellent product.
Future improvement wishes would be speedier scans, but that is limited by the scanning technology and hardware specifications.
FYI - yes it will sometimes have difficulty scanning very light receipts, but that is to be expected with a scanner like this. If one expects photo quality scanner this is not the one to buy. A photo quality scanner will take too long to scan receipts. This scanner captures receipts information pretty well but it does not produce a photo replica of the receipt.
Also, the other reviewer mentioned problems with USB. Quite often that is a problem with Windows, especially on a Windows system that's been run for quite sometime and with a lot of other accessories installed. I installed this on 3 of my windows XP systems and they all worked fine. If I ever have a problem I would reinstall Windows as Windows tends to get cluttered with hardware profiles and have problems with USB devices.
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