Product Description

NeatReceipts helps you get rid of paper by scanning and organizing everything in a database on your computer. NeatReceipts is committed to helping you stay organized without the paper mess at work, at home and on the go. From receipts and expense reports to business documents and business cards, you can now manage your paperwork with ease. Keep organized, digital files in a database on your PC by simply sending documents through the scanner and the software will automatically handle the rest, ensuring you have ideal image scans. The lightweight, portable scanner weighs less than one pound, measures only 10.8 x 1.6 x 1.3 and powered by a single USB cord. It conveniently fits into your briefcase or laptop carrying case. Using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, NEAT Receipts extracts key information from your receipts and business cards and inserts it into corresponding fields on a spreadsheet, filling in the information so you don't have to. Your receipts will be easy to find because NEAT Receipts keeps track of purchases by vendor, date, expense category and even recognizes the last 4 digits of credit cards. Simplifies tax preparation for home with digital images of all your receipts, organized by their appropriate tax form and schedules. Streamline tax prep with NEAT Receipts Professional. You can scan your tax-related receipts into your computer and organize them by their appropriate IRS categories. Perfect for the road warrior to quickly prepare expense reports that include copies of your receipts. Clear off your desk and electronically manage documents such as meeting notes, invoices, contracts, and faxes. Now you scan and organize contracts, medical forms, financial statements, warranties, letters, articles, and recipes. NEAT Receipts helps you organize information with customizable fields - expense category, vendor, client, date range, and payment type Designed for Microsoft Vista, Windows XP and 2

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Product Details

• Brand: NeatReceipts
• Model: 00162
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 8.00" w x 14.00" l, 2.40 pounds

Features

• Portable scanner can scan receipts, documents, and business cards
• 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
• Device measures 10.8 x 1.6 x 1.3 inches (WxHxD)

Amazon.com Product Description

NeatReceipts Version 3.0 is the easiest way for individuals and small businesses to manage expenses, prepare for taxes, create expense reports, and scan business cards. But it not all just for business--you can also use Neat Receipts for scrapbooking, archiving family recipes, and other family activities. NEAT Receipts is a portable scanner and software solution that accurately scans receipts, documents and business cards. Patented technology scans items and captures data from the printed documents, then automatically organizes into a database.

Use NeatReceipts 3.0 to manage expenses, prepare for taxes, create expense reports, and scan business cards.

Sync contact information into Outlook, Plaxo or vCard from your business cards. View example.

Organize expenses by IRS form and category. View example.

Scan documents, recipes, and more and then convert them to PDF and organize in one central location. View example.

Organize Your Paper, Simplify Your Life

Maintain accurate records of all your expenses. Analyze your spending by vendor, date, project, client and more.

Take Pain Out of Tax Prep - IRS-accepted!
Because your NEAT Receipts scans are IRS-accepted digital copies, you’ll be incredibly organized for taxes. You can even export to TurboTax.

Create A Document Database
Easily manage documents for your business, home or both. Quickly find information with keyword search. Create PDF files or convert printed documents to editable text.

Digitize Your Business Cards
Getting business cards into Outlook®, your PDA, or other contact management solution id a breeze. NEAT Receipts automatically extracts key data with stunning accuracy.

Automate Your Expense Reports
With all your receipts in crisp, digital format, creating professional expense reports is fast and easy. The perfect tool for business travelers!

Exports data to Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Money, Quickbooks, Quicken, TurboTax, TaxCut, csv, vCard, Plaxo, ACT!, HTML and more.

How NeatReciepts Works

NeatScan Technology Using advanced Optical Character Recognition, NeatScan technology (patent pending) extracts key information from your receipts, such as date, amount, payment method, expense category and vendor. If you scan in business cards, NeatScan automatically pulls out information like name, company, address, phone numbers, email address etc.

NeatScan actually learns to associate an expense category (such as meals or lodging) to a particular vendor (brands such as Starbucks or Hilton) so you don't have to type in the information each time. This ensures that your financial records are filed consistently and with minimal effort.

Each user of NeatReceipts Professional 3.0 receives the NeatReceipts scanner--a lightweight, portable, durable color scanner. Our software was designed with this scanner in mind and offers the following unmatched functionality:

• Auto-sizes any scanned receipt or document.
• Auto-crops and auto-rotates any scanned receipt or document.
• Scan widthwise or lengthwise -- the image will appear upright in image viewer.
• Powered by USB port, so no plug needed (it's truly portable!).
• Scans quickly and easily without opening and closing scanner lid (flatbed).
• Small, portable and lightweight. Perfect for the office, the home and the road!

What's New with NeatReceipts 3.0

Scan to PDF - In just a few easy steps, you can convert paper documents into PDF format.

Searchable PDF - Easily turns paper into searchable PDF files and allows you to edit text via copy / paste function.

Smart SortingTM - Allows users to scan multiple document types using batch-type processing and automatically organizes each document type.

Keyword Search - Search through receipts, business cards and documents for specific keywords that appear in scanned text.

Convert to Editable Text - Convert printed documents to text that you can edit.

Windows Vista Compatible - We are now fully compatible with Windows Vista.

Technical Specifications - Scanner Portable Color / Grayscale / BW CIS No external power supply needed; runs off USB power Maximum Resolution 600 dpi Speed: approximately 3-4 receipts per minute Interface: USB 1.0 & 2.0 compatible Scan Area: 1" x 1" to 8.5" x 14 (up to 30" long) Scanner Dimensions (WxDxH): 10.8" x 1.6" x 1.3" Scanner Weight: 10.6 ounces Bit Depth: Color: 48-bit input, 24/48-bit output; Grayscale: 16-bit input, 8/16-bit output; B/W: 1-bit

Technical Specifications - Software Images can be saved in JPEG and PDF formats Export to: XLS (Microsoft Excel), .RTF (Microsoft Word), .OFX (Quicken, Microsoft Money), .IIF (Quickbooks), .QIF (Quicken), .CSV, .HTML, .PDF, Microsoft Outlook Direct to Quickbooks export (No separate export file required) Supports sending emails using third party MAPI clients (e.g. Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc.) NEAT Receipts scans in grayscale to minimize image size (scanner supports color) Reads U.S. and Canadian receipts and business cards Uses Microsoft .Net 2.0 & MS SQL Express Microsoft Windows XP or Vista (64 bit is not currently supported)

What's in the Box
Scanner, carrying case, stand

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Customer Reviews

No 64 bit support
I bought neat receipts just as i was upgrading all the computers in my house hold and was shocked to find that it would not work on Windows XP or Vista 64 bit (all my computers have 64 bit OS's including Linuix). I did get it to run on a old laptop using Windows XP 32 bit found it amazingly slow and rather inaccurate forcing me to constantly reenter information manually. Sadly i now have a 250 dollar paper wait and I am back to scanning receipts on a flat bed scanner and then manually entering my receipt data. Whats worse is.. the company seems to have no plans for supporting 64 bit even though almost all computers now have 64 bit processors.
Neat receipts is a great idea but unfortunately their product is weak, slow, and totally out of date.

Interesting idea-- CRAPPY support
I bought this primarily for use scanning business cards, and some occasional receipts. I've been disappointed so far.

- For those who suggest that I should look at NR Business cards, sadly, you cannot have both applications running on the same machine. If you try to install both, neither will function. I confirmed this by talking with their tech people.

- Scanning is "OK", but it doesn't do well with decorative fonts. You'll need to proof read everything.

- electronic tech support is abysmal. When you submit a question, you get an automated list of items in their FAQ DB to review. Sounds like a good idea, except that the FAQ is only ~60 items in the first place. Having already checked it, I wanted an *actual* answer. More infuriating, though, is that at the end of their automated response, it says "if this doesn't answer your question, scroll down and click on the 'finish submitting question' button. The button doesn't exist.

There are multiple minor technical bugs, which led me to call their tech support people. If I understood the perons I spoke with, this 'product' is actually a college project for a professor, and he has his students working on it. Hardly what I'd call world class development.

Great hardware bundled with a software abomination!
I've been very pleased with the quality of the scanner itself. Just a couple of years ago I purchased a similar type portable scanner for over twice the price but was never happy with it. Documents would always get skewed going through the scanner due to a weak feed system. It is for this reason that I still give this scanner props in spite of what others have said.

I think I would have been far more upset had I purchased NeatReceipts for the entire package and the promise of a system that is supposed to help me organize my documents and keep track of all my receipts with ease. I think the makers of this product had a good idea -- I only wish they would have put a little more research and testing into the software portion of the product. The user interface is confusing, and it lacks the kinds of configuration options that most users would expect to find in a software package that promises so much. I had to search through the entire menu three times before I could believe that there is no way to configure common scanning options I've grown accustomed to seeing in other scanning software. You can't choose your scan resolution, there is no option for scanning in black and white (as opposed to grayscale) and when in "receipt" scanning mode you don't even have the option to scan in color. When exporting to graphic formats (bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif) there are no configuration options for any of the formats. For example, when exporting to jpeg format you might expect to be given the option to choose the degree of compression vs quality depending on whether you want a clean, printable image or you would rather have a small file size. The software makes all those choices for you, and you may not like the results.

There are other quirks as well, which I find inexcusable. For instance, when scanning receipts the software will fill in the merchant name if the first few letters you type match a name you have entered previously -- a nice feature that can turn on you. If you happen to be entering the name of another merchant that just happens to have the first few letters in its name as one previously entered you can typically continue typing the name and the suggestion will disappear, but I have begun having problems with the software not allowing me to modify the suggested names, and there is no option in the software to make modifications to the lists it creates in its database like I've become accustomed to doing in Quickbooks.

Another annoying quirk is when exporting to pdf format -- possibly one of the potentially most useful features of the software in my opinion -- the resulting pdf documents are always blurry. Again, there are no options allowing one to adjust the quality of exports -- a BIG disappointment.

Finally, the software is incredibly bloated. There is no quick-loading streamlined app for quickly scanning a few documents, which really would be nice seeing as how it takes 56 seconds for NeatReceipts Professional to load on my T5470 (Intel Core 2 Duo) system. I also noticed that NeatReceipts.exe and associated processes tip the system memory scales at over 130MB -- nearly twice the memory footprint of programs like Adobe Photoshop and iTunes!! Fortunately if you're running Windows XP you have the option to use Windows XP's scan wizard and avoid the NeatReceipts software entirely (my recommendation).