Technology has evolved in so many ways. It can help us with our everyday tasks. Including keeping our documents safe. Most companies utilize computer software to keep track of their business documents. NeatReceipts is making it easier for small and home businesses to help organize their documents.
I received a portable NeatReciepts scanner to review. When talking to my accountant at work, I found that she actually uses a larger version of NeatReciepts for document scanning.
The NeatReceipts portable scanner is a small, handy scanner, which allows you to scan your documents and organize them fairly easily.
The scanner is about 10 inches long and only about 2 inches wide. I can easily toss it into my gadget bag when traveling. Aside from the NeatReciepts being a portable scanner that saves space, it has great software that helps me organize documents once they are scanned.
Set up of the software that comes with the scanner took only a few minutes. I was then able to plug the scanner into my laptop and start scanning and organizing. I only use it when I need to scan documents. When not in use, it slides easily into my desk drawer for storage.
The software that accompanies NeatReciepts scanners has text recognition and the ability to export documents and content to expense reports, email, HTML, rich text, Microsoft Excel, Word, Money, Quicken, QuickBooks, or Adobe Acrabat. With this ability, you can scan any document and store it or send it fast and easily. The software is installed with easy to follow tutorials for the technically challenged.
The NeatReceipts software has four main screens: Receipt Manager, Expense Reports, Drag & Drop, and Document Manager. Once a document is scanned you can store it and label, tag, and add comments so it is easy to find when you are searching for it later. You may need to enter additional information when scanning faded or handwritten documents and receipts. The NeatRecipets text recognition has a small problem being able to read these types of documents.
The NeatReceipts portable scanner sales for about $199 at many online and offline stores.
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Always thought the neat receipt was a cool gadget. Specifically their OCR software seems to be the best.
My HP scanner has some OCR, but it doesn’t have a good document cataloging system and I can’t scan receipts.
Thanks of the insight.
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I am so disorganized and something like this would certainly come in handy. The scanner we had attached to our three-in-one printer went kaput (along with the rest of the printer) so I can’t use it for that purpose anymore. This looks like a nice small portable device that would get the job done without a lot of fuss.
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Thank you for the information. However do you think that such a small device scan documents with good quality?
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Hi Jessica. Thanks a lot for sharing this. It’s a very nice info. This can be a very helpful device to use in office i think.
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I’ve been thinking of picking one of these up, but I don’t need it to organize..just to scan so a couple of questions.
1) I think from reading your review, the answer is yes, but when you scan, can you just save as pdf’s that don’t need neat receipts software to open in 10 years when the software is out of date or the scanner has died or whatever? In other words, are you not tied to “neat receipts” forever once you use it to scan?
2) Is there any real advantage if that is what I”m doing besides the size to the regular scanners I have now (a flat bed and one with autofeed where it can scan multiple documents back to back)
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You can scan anything and store it in a PDF document so you can access it for years to come. At work our accountant scans a lot of stuff and when I asked her about the software she had no clue and told me she just scans. Not sure if she understands it has it’s own software or if it has never set it up with the software.
So your second question. If you want it just to scan stuff without using the software I say use what you have or buy something that is more budget friendly. The price is higher than most scanners because of the software. If you aren’t interested in the software than you would be spending money for nothing.
Thanks. That was what I was thinking, but it’s always nice to have someone else’s opinion. I’ll stick to my scanners I guess.
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