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The Neat Company NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System 4.0 (White)
From The Neat Company
List Price: $249.95
Price: $189.99

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Ships from and sold by BuyNow Incorporated

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Customer Reviews

MAD
This is $50 bucks less than what I paid for it a month ago, and for that I am MAD at amazon.com.

This scanner does scan reciepts. The software has some cool features, such as a tax organizer with all the schedules and additional information so it guides you where to put things on your tax returns.

But other than that, it’s far too slow to be easily useable. It hangs up, takes well over an hour to close up for me, and uses all my PCs availible memory. It’s only getting worse the more reciepts I scan in, so now I’ll have to buy a probably overpriced hardrive to store them in? LAME!
Specifically it takes too long to process a scan after I scan it, somtimes in cue for a very long time. But even worse, is recatagorizing the reciepts, as this software ‘learns’ what is a reciept, and has a sorting system for documents and contacts as well (it doesn’t always work, somtimes putting stuff all over where it does not belong). But when I try to do this on my machine, it takes several minutes for EACH RECIEPT/SCAN/DOCUMENT. I have thousands of records. There is not enough time in the day to wait for this process.

The scanner is fine, the hardware part. Yes it scans. Probably scans just as well for $150 as it does for $200, probably even that much better for the satisfaction you would get.

I think you should get it, even though I sort of hate it now. It’s the easiest way to deal with reciepts, which is really too bad. It ’sucks’ the reciepts in a bit, which works on most newer reciepts, and less for a year or two old, wrinkled reciepts. But a gentle push and they make their way through.
Just make sure you have nothing else to do on your computer for awhile. And get a cushy mousepad to bang your head on while you wait if you paid too much like I did.
And hopefully they will update the software to make it faster.

I like it
I also bought this at Costco and i have no complain. For me this has been a great purchase since i am not good at keeping book about our spending.
After shopping, i place my receipts into my ‘new created receipt basket’ and on a day when i have some spare time i scan it all in. I created monthly folders so i can see at the end of each month how much i spend on each store. The scanner reads some of store names from the receipt and fills it into the vendor spot and the ones it does not read, you just type it in yourself. I finally see how much a month i put towards groceries, gas, entertainment etc and it was a total surprise and i try to make better choices in spending, seeing how much i already spend.
The scanner also has a option to scan in business cards and documents. I have now all available with the click of a button and i like it.
The size is great, makes it easy to put out of sight.
It is a bit pricey but the program it comes with has been making my personal book keeping much easier and i even dare say a bit fun.
4 stars for the price and to have to fill in/correct some info after scanning.

Low Quality Scans
The device itself is nice and small and very cool looking. But the quality of the scans is a very low 200 dpi. Which means it is great if you trying to scan receipts and b&w documents. But the quality of, let’s say, a photo ad would be bad. This really limits what you can do with this scanner.

I own a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 that is just plain awesome. I wasn’t expecting that from the NeatScan for $150, but I was expecting high resolution scans – maybe just a lot slower. There are much better alternatives out there for a little more money. Check out the Fujitsu Scansnap S300.