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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Rating:  4 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
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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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| Customer Reviews:
 A decent product for the price November 13, 2008
Norman King Tong (West Covina, CA USA)
1 out of 1 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
J. Peshkin (San Juan Capistrano, CA)
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
Gadget Lover (USA)
5 out of 5 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.
 Not pleased at all October 28, 2008
Luis A. Rosello (Long Beach, CA United States)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased mine at COSTCO, good choice since I'm going to return it as soon as I can.
The actual scanner is small and comes with a nice travel case, and a USB cable, that's all you need.
Here's the issues I've had with this scanner:
The USB connections is totally flaky, could be a bad cable, but this is the first time I've had issues with a USB device.
The feeding mechanism is bad, it's supposed to grab the paper, but it doesn't work with small receipts, and as it scans it "bends" most of the scans.
It has drivers (twain and others) you could use with other utilities, but there's no utility to change settings, so you're stuck with basic 200dpi, and b/w, so faded receipts will not scan.
Along those lines, the OCR software works OK, but I've had problems with dot matrix printed receipts, they scan as blank pages, and there's nothing that I can do about it.
The Quick scan utility stopped showing the previews of scans, it does still count them and load to Neatworks.
The software itself seems logically organized, and helpfull, but I found it to be highly frustrating and difficult to customize. It's designed to make things easy for you, and it uses it's own database to store your scans. I'm used to saving my scans as PDFs (it does do PDFs) and tiffs, and although it does batch scans, if one receipt will not scan (blank page) you're screwed. You really have to try to work around the software, which is not easy...
Overall I just need a portable scanner with a driver utility, that's it. This thing does more than that, which would be OK, but you're pretty much stuck using it with it's own software, and I don't have the time or interest to learn...
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