NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac

I very hesitatingly bought this product considering that I have a scanner as part of my printer. However I have used this more often since I purchased it than I have used my regular scanner. The portability has allowed me to take it with me all the time and I feel my efficiency has gone up several fold because of it. I would strongly recommend this to anybody needing a regular scanner plus portability.

After looking for an good scanner I finaly decided to purchase this one. It was the only one that could support Mac & Windows sofeware which comes with the scanner. It works great and does the job very well in black & white as well as color . However if you want to save your documernts on an external drive it will do so but will not put it in order . I had to find this out myself , I did call the company and emailed there Help Desk for advise , but there customer service may as well not be there, they are not helpfull at all. Please do not get me wrong the product is great but the customer service needs to be looked at again, you are better off getting the answers yourself. Please keep in mind that this scanner does pull power from you computer, and thus when using a laptop it will eat up battery power faster, so plug in your computer to AC when using the scanner.

This scanner is a life saver. As a head of the house, I get tons of receipts and it gets absolutely maddening trying to keep them all organized. This makes it very easy to not only organize my receipts but my run of the mill documents as well. I pretty much scan everything now. The OCR recognition works well. If I type in a word or two for what I am looking for, the search results list the docs quickly. You need to spend a little bit of time getting the system to be smart at first -- the first few batches of receipts you do you need to sometimes link the info from the receipt to the correct field, which is a simple drag and drop. After I do this I find that if I scan a receipt from the same store again the system has the data entered automatically. Thankfully then finally developed a hierarchical folder system so I could organize my receipts in much the same way I can create folders inside of folders on a computer OS. Still, there are some basic features missing that I would like to see developed. For one, if you want to zoom in on a receipt, you have to click EDIT to bring it up into a separate window, then you can zoom. This extra step may not seem like a big deal, but when you have 50 receipts, its a pain. I really dont understand why they dont just make it so I can zoom in on a receipt in the main screen. Also, the scanner needs to do a better job with pages that have been folder. Many times the paper will stop feeding through the scanning device, and it ends up looking blurred on the screen. I thin have to do it all over again. Finally, while I am glad they increased the length of receipt one could scan, I still find it frustrating when scanning long grocery receipts, because the scanner will sometimes just stop scanning even though it has not fed the whole receipt through.

I bought this small scanner to be able to travel with me to many locations throughout the day. I like the portability of it but I was disappointed when I could not find any tech support when my documents were only scanning blank pages. After some frustration, I tried to calibrate the scanner and that seemed to work, but I was a bit confused why I had to calibrate an item right out of the box. The other issue Im having is I dont know how to scan several pages into 1 pdf or email? I usually have at least 1-5 pages to scan back to the office and its time consuming and non productive to send 5 different emails to get the job done. Since there is no tech support, Im assuming I wont get the answer? It would have been helpful if it came with a booklet to walk you thru several issues. If anyone knows the answer to my question please share it with me

Works very much as I expected. Dont like that it can skew the recept as it is scanning. Scan image is good. Software works nice on mac. Just use for receipts. Have bigger scanner for full page.

This little item works very well and very quickly but it isnt perfect yet. The scanner is good, it rectifies crooked scans, but the OCR can miss things. It can be amazingly accurate, and on the next scan it can get the vendor wrong, the price wrong or the details wrong. Nevertheless its good because it is very easy to correct the mistakes and then the file of images and the reports it generates are great for record keeping and consistent with IRS standards. Particularly good if you have a FLEX (Flexible Medical Spending Account) and you need to keep records of all those copays, OTC meds, etc. Overall a really good product. Fix the OCR software and it will be perfect.

I really wanted to love this product. I have been seeing the ads in magazines for a while - the little white machine with orange advertising. I was sold. I finally ordered it one day and followed the instructions. Calibrated and then ran a test scan with a form I needed to scan. All I got was weird spots. Tried to calibrate and trouble shoot. But gave up. I am a Mac user and I am used to being able to troubleshoot things after 2-3 tries. I emailed customer support and I got no response. Was really hoping for it to be awesome. I have to say I am really sad. Worst - I dont even want to bother putting it back in the box and returning it to Amazon. Am I alone?

Paper paper everywhere but not any more.Since a have had a neat scanner i do not have a draweer full of receipts.IRS accepts this form of documentation.Every year at tax time all i do is push a button.At my delight all is there to view.Why do it any other way

I was so excited about Neat Receipts when I got it. I scanned a bunch of items, and was thrilled to have such a small, portable scanner. However the scanner broke within 2 weeks of my using it. It now has black lines through every scan I make. Ive contacted customer support and they are not helpful. So I ended up returning it. Other issues: the report format is not customizeable so, while I was excited to use this for my expense reports for work, the software wont print or export the categories I need for my expense reports. The OCR capability is mediocre at best so at the end of the day, this just didnt live up to expectations.

did not work. poor customer support. too late to return. will not purchase anything NEAT. closing NEAT account, too costly. looking for a less expensive option. DO NOT BUY THIS product. if you must buy mine.