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August 21, 2009

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Dana Stripling

The "Holy Grail" search is always an endless endeavor...and makes for a very cluttered office and computer. I, too, was tempted by the Neat Receipts scanner despite having a swift, flawless ScanSnap M1500 and the portable ScanSnap S300M. The portable ScanSnap is USB powered and works almost as fast and just as flawless as its bigger sibling. While evaluating the Neat Receipts, a simple google moment led me to "Paperless" application by Mariner. I picked it up on a promo for less, but the $45 price tag for a complete filing system seemed hard to beat. Absolutely love it. Easy, all Mac, stores receipts, the tons of user manuals I have, even client files. Thanks for your reasoned eval.

Steve "@PodcastSteve" Lubetkin

We first wrote about Neat Company's NeatReceipts scanner in 2006 (review and audio podcast interview with inventor Rafi Spero at http://www.compuschmooze.com/2006/06/compuschmooze-podcast-15-interview.html) and we just reviewed their newest product, NeatDesk the week before Pogue's review appeared, (www.jewishvoicesnj.org/news/2009/0812/columns/040.html, and a video podcast demonstration of the product at http://www.compuschmooze.com/2009/08/compuschmooze-video-podcast-3.html) so we were rather surprised to see Pogue just now reviewing the older product.

We like them both, although for large quantities of receipts the NeatWorks workflow is much more efficient because you get all the paper scanned first. NeatReceipts requires you to enter one receipt at a time into the scanner, and the tendency is to then try to categorize each receipt as you scan it. Much better to get it all scanned and get rid of the paper on the desk, then work exclusively with the images, which is the way NeatDesk wants you to work.

Check out our reviews and let me know what you think!

Steve "PodcastSteve" Lubetkin
Compuschmooze Technology Columnist
Jewish Community Voice of Southern NJ
steve@compuschmooze.com

Greg Jaeger

I note that in addition to the Scansnap 1500, there is a Scansnap 1500 Deluxe Bundle. The extra seems to be the Rack2 Filer software. Is this software usable in the law office? Is it worth the extra money? I will be starting the paperless office from square one.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Jenn Choi

Hello,
My name is Jenn Choi and I'm an employee of The Neat Company.

I wanted to provide some additional information regarding our offerings and who they're best suited for. We make one software application, NeatWorks (PC and Mac versions), that powers two scanners. The mobile solution (NeatReceipts) is great for users who need portability or have space constraints. The auto-document feed scanner (NeatDesk) is best suited for users who need high-speed, batch style scanning.

Fujitsu makes great scanners, however, our software is what truly differentiates us from others in the market. Our products are designed to scan, read and organize multiple paper types (receipts, business cards and documents). Our goal is to not only digitize paper or create PDFs, but to allow users to easily use and find the information in scanned items. For example, receipts can quickly be turned into expense reports, business cards into Outlook (or Address Book) contacts, and documents into PDFs. Additionally, data can be exported to a number of applications, such as Quicken.

David Pogue is using NeatReceipts for Mac (not the PC version). I'm sorry you didn't have a positive experience with the product, however, I'd like to encourage you to give it another try. I'd be happy to answer any questions and also would appreciate any feedback or suggestions you may have.


Sincerely,
Jenn Choi
jchoi@neatco.com

Neat Receipts NR-030108

I love neat receipts. Saved my life once. Sort of.

Roch

I purchased the Neat Receipts Scanalizer in late 2006 thinking it would solve many of my expense reporting problems. Much to my dismay, I could never get the software to work on my Medion laptop. Many emails and log files back and forth and no luck. 2 and a half years later, I'm stuck with the slick non-working wand - I still have the original box and equipment if Jenn is willing to refund my money!
I bought the neat receipts solution for portability and effectiveness. Of course if it doesn't work with my portable solution what good is it? I ended up with an HP 8250 from eBay for $80 and absolutely love it! Combined with Google Desktop search, it provides everything you would ever want. At 25 pages per minute and duplex functionality scanning into searchable (OCR'd) PDFs you can't beat it! Heed the author's advice and save your receipts until you get home. So, Jenn if you feel like refunding my money - let me know - it's like brand new in the box! I'm still getting the MSDE 1603 error and it irritates me every time I see one the "personal" posts from a scanalizer "employee" touting their products.

Dennis

There is software out there for the mac that uses OCR to read receipts and file them on your machine. if you have other scanning to do and do not need to carry one around with you, a larger, faster, higher quality scanner would be best for you in my opinion.

George

I too am an exNeatReceipts user. I had used it successfully w/ a PC however when I switched to a Mac I had to wait @ least 2 yrs before a Mac product became available. Last year I upgraded to the latest version and found a) my scanner no longer worked properly and b) all the papers I had scanned the day before "disappeared" although I had backed up the file and already shredded the papers. I do miss the ability to move files into Quicken and to make reports but I now use DEVONthink ProOffice with a ScanSnap and am rapidly getting rid of my paper backlog.

Allen

I use a ScanSnap S300, the portable version. It's very nice. My main complaint is that it doesn't work in Linux, but we Linux users are used to that. I occasionally have to use Windows programs, and for that I keep a VirtualBox installation of Windows on my Linux box. The scanner works just fine with the virtual Windows.

Sell Strucutred Settlement

I had a NeatReciepts Mobile Scanner that I recently sold on e-Bay. I have to admit that it was very handy to have, but the quality and speed at which it processed documents sometimes gave me headaches.

Bill Williams

NeatReceipts Scanalizer Professional 2.5 is Simple, intuitive software interface; can export files to Excel, Quicken, Acrobat, and more; helpful, well-written documentation and user tutorials.but,software doesn't recognize handwritten or faded receipts; more expensive than a basic flatbed scanner; which shuns Mac users.all over, This compact, intelligently designed sheet-fed scanner almost makes it a pleasure to generate expense reports and calculate itemized income tax deductions.
it's good that pdfforlawyers.com posted this article so that we could know more about the product.pdfforlawyers.com is a great website.i like the interface of site.it's very easy to use & very user-friendly.
i highly recommend this site!!!

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David Barrett

Hi! I'm David from Expensify. We've received a *ton* of users from this post. It sounds like Expensify really hits a need for lawyers; come check us out!

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