NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14 x 10 x 4 inches ; 2.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CQFRPO
• Item model number: 00346
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

NeatReceipts® is a mobile scanner and digital filing system that enables you to scan receipts, business cards and documents so you can organize, store and secure all your important information. NeatReceipts includes NeatWorks 4.0, our patented software that identifies and extracts the important information—and automatically organizes it for you. Transform receipts into expense reports, business cards into address book contacts and create searchable PDF files from any document. Export information to PDF, Excel®, Quicken®, QuickBooks®, TurboTax® and more.

NeatReceipts is powered by NeatWorks 4.0 software suite for scanning receipts, business cards documents and creating tax reports.

At less than one pound, NeatReceipts is perfect for the road, home, or office. Create a digital filing cabinet to organize and secure all your important information.

Transform paper into information that works
Patented software identifies and activates information trapped in paper so you can edit, add notes, run reports and more.

Store. Organize. Secure.
Create a digital filing cabinet to organize and secure all your important information.

From paper to productivity.
Export to PDF, Excel®, Quicken®, QuickBooks®, Turbo Tax®, Outlook®, vCard, Plaxo and more.

One software-hardware solution – all types of paper.
The Neat solution helps you manage receipts, business cards, and documents.

It works where you work
At the office, on the road or at home, Neat has a solution for you.

NeatReceipts is powered by NeatWorks 4.0 software suite for scanning receipts, business cards, documents, and creating tax reports:

Scan in receipts to:

• Save digital copies of receipts and records of vendors, dates, and totals
• Create expense reports and manage business and personal expenses
• Keep track of expenses for tax time (records accepted by the IRS)
• Export data to PDF, Excel®, Quicken®, QuickBooks®, TurboTax®

Scan in business cards to:

• Keep digital images of cards and contact information
• Capture name, address, company title, etc.
• Create your own searchable contact database
• Export data to Outlook and more

Scan in documents to:

• Create searchable PDF files
• Edit text using copy/paste
• Organize and store in your digital filing cabinet

What's in the box
NeatReceipts Scanner, USB cable, calibration paper, dry cleaning paper and alcohol cleaning paper, instruction manual, and installation CD.

Product Description
NeatReceipts works where you work - weighing in at less than a pound and powered by USB, NeatReceipts is the perfect tool at work, at home or on the go. NeatReceipts helps you free the information that's trapped in your documents, so you can organize, store, secure and activate it. Scan receipts for expense reports, digitize business cards, prep for taxes (IRS accepts NR scans in lieu of actual receipts!), manage documents. You can even export data, scan to PDF, use Smart Sorting to help organize your files, and convert your scans to editable text.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product, does what it claims - to organize your receipts, November 1, 2008

By	Gadget Lover "I love hi-tech gadgets" (USA) - See all my reviews

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.

54 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware - Not Backward Compatible, January 6, 2009

By	stevecat "stevecat" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

I have been using NeatReceipts for a couple of years now. I generally like the product, but I am now using BOTH the 'Classic ver 1.5.9" and the new Ver 4.0 software because Neat Receipts broke a covenant with it early adopters. They broke two of the cardinal rules of product development (1) never, ever, under any circumstances forget your early customers and their data (2) never remove vital features of the product.

First, they "forgot" their "Classic ver 1.5.9" users. Versions of the software from 2.0 up thru the current ver 4.1 cannot reconize or import any of the receipts or documents scanned into the earlier version. I have personally talked to then about this for almost 2 years. At first, in early 2007, they repeatedly stated that they were hard at work on migration solution. We depended on that statement telling them how important it was for us to be able to access our archived data - for inventories, insurance and tax records.

But they finally just abandoned this effort and offered everyone a discount to upgrade to a later version. How is that going to help with restoring archived data? The data and file formats for their .elrec and .eldoc seem fairly simple - a scanned image and some recognized text fields. Why can't they import those formats like they allow for jpeg and tiff images?

They offered no acceptable reasons beyond that we are no longer working on that feature and would you like to upgrade. They seem to be oblivious to the frustrations they have caused a large number of their customers. We even communicated with Rafi Spero, one of the companies owners. If he couldn't make it happen, you know they don't care about you as a customer. BEWARE THIS COMPANY.

Secondly: The "Classic" version allowed users to create folders and subfolders, etc. This was a fantastic way to organize receipts for cash, various credit cards, checks and debits, by year and then by month. Or to organize a copy of receipts for an inventory by broad categories and then further by store, year or vendor. So the initial features of both subfolders and the ability to copy receipts from yearly tax records to inventory folders was extremely useful and helpful in elimnating paperwork clutter.

The new ver 4 software does not support nested folders or copying receipts to other folders. Every time you scan a receipt, it goes into a folder. But all folders are on the same level. You can show and hide folders, but this is an extremely clumsy process and causes users a lot of extra work in trying to organize their invoices and receipts. If you want to copy a receipt, you have to scan it AGAIN. How brain-dead is that?

Bottom Line: This company has proven that, at their convenience, they will ignore or abandon prior versions of the software and remove vital features.

To fix some of their current short-coming, as mentioned above, it would not surprise me to see them create a new version of their software that is incompatible with they are selling today.

DO NOT TRUST them with any vital data that you may need in the future.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent product for the price, November 13, 2008

By	Norman King Tong (West Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.