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NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting Description
Binding: Electronics
Brand: The Neat Company
EAN: 0899061000025
Product Features: Portable USB scanner; organizes your professional and personal finances
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: The Neat Company
Manufacturer: The Neat Company
Model: 899061A
Publisher: The Neat Company
Product Release Date: 2005-03-07
Studio: The Neat Company
Brand: The Neat Company
EAN: 0899061000025
Product Features: Portable USB scanner; organizes your professional and personal finances
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: The Neat Company
Manufacturer: The Neat Company
Model: 899061A
Publisher: The Neat Company
Product Release Date: 2005-03-07
Studio: The Neat Company
NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting Features
Portable USB scanner; organizes your professional and personal finances
Makes permanent copies of receipts and invoices
Reads information from receipts and stores it in a searchable database
Stores tax-related information with each expense; tracks deductible expenses
Exports to Quicken, Money, QuickBooks; creates reports in PDF, XLS, HTML, and CSV
Makes permanent copies of receipts and invoices
Reads information from receipts and stores it in a searchable database
Stores tax-related information with each expense; tracks deductible expenses
Exports to Quicken, Money, QuickBooks; creates reports in PDF, XLS, HTML, and CSV
Editorial Review of NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting
NeatReceipts is a scanner and software combination that is built from ground up to help you manage receipts, track your expenses and quickly create expense reports.
NeatReceipts automatically extracts information from scanned receipts and creates a database linking expenses to receipts. It makes creating expense reports and managing receipts a snap!
NeatReceipts automatically extracts information from scanned receipts and creates a database linking expenses to receipts. It makes creating expense reports and managing receipts a snap!
Customer Reviews of NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great for a traveling businessman with a HUGE laptop
Review: The product does what it says... it scans, organizes, and categorizes receipts from just about any retail store or restaurant chain. If you run your own small business and need to track expenses JUST via receipts, this is a great tool. Everything else about this product is broken.
First, the program itself is huge. It installs MSSQL, and an a large set of programs and data files. It also adds a background service (which autostarts at boot) that eats 500M+ of memory even when the main program isn't running. When it IS running, it's combined system usage is over a gig of memory.
Second is speed. The scanner itself scans receipts in quickly, taking only a second or two for a standard receipt, 5 or so for a letter sized page. The software then takes 30 to 90 seconds (2Ghz laptop w/ 2G of ram here) to "scanalyze" the receipt, depending on size and image quality. There is no way to batch scan receipts and put off the rest for later, so you're stuck waiting for it if you have multiple receipts. If you're lucky, it gleans and auto-enters data for 4 or 5 fields and/or auto crops and rotates your receipt. If not, you have to do that manually.
It also claims to organize other documents. But other documents it means recipes and newspaper clippings, which are about all it knows how to do outside of receipts. It can scan and store letter sized documents and pictures, but it then spends lots of time trying to "scanalyze" it, even though it's not a receipt, before finally giving up and letting you enter data manually. The interface is clunky at best, more so when you're trying to scan multiple pages from a document in. And if the scanner get unplugged from the USB port (which is very easy to do), you lose, as the software can not see the scanner again until you close it and re-open it, which takes at least a minute.
Finally we get to export. The QIF data is great, but most recent Quicken products no long accept the QIF format. And if you happen to have an older version, you're limited in what you can do with that data in any case. I've also yet to get it to export a single PDF properly, so I can't say much about that except that it's totally busted. And while I'm sure the tax reports it makes are really nice, who's going to use scanner software to print tax forms for filing?
Overall, the hardware is great, but the software is very lacking. It's nice that they offer a twain driver in the bundle so you can use other software with the scanning wand. But even that interface is clunky, and only supports one image at a time scanning. So doing anything multipage is painful, and the buttons on the device are useless outside of the supplied software package. Again, it does what it says, but only that, and not that quickly.
Also... It doesn't work on Vista. Period. They've released a few patches to try to update it, but they didn't work. And it now looks like they've given up on the older version and are trying to get people to update to the newest line of software (for a modest fee of course).
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: not compatable with windows
Review: simply put it isn't compatable with all recent versions of windows, there is a petition to try and get the company to respond to this. Until they do you should NOT BUY IT, and let the company know why.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great for home receipts - not a business solution
Review: For a home receipt solution this would be a great product, but as far as a business solution it requires twice as much data entry then just using quickbooks. It worked fantastic with outlook contacts and the sync was flawless, but of our over 200 vendors not a single invoice could be recognized.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: neatreceipts scanner
Review: I've been using the scanner to organize my business receipts. Its been a big help in keeping track of my expenses. No complaints so far.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Makes completing expense reports really easy
Review: I am a consultant and am self employed and I track exepnses and bill them to my clients - or I lose money. I bought one of these about 3 weeks ago and it's awesome. It is really smart (or the software is) and when it scans a receipt it moves the amounts right into the excel spreadsheet I use. Wow, once in awhile technology really works!
Review Summary: Great for a traveling businessman with a HUGE laptop
Review: The product does what it says... it scans, organizes, and categorizes receipts from just about any retail store or restaurant chain. If you run your own small business and need to track expenses JUST via receipts, this is a great tool. Everything else about this product is broken.
First, the program itself is huge. It installs MSSQL, and an a large set of programs and data files. It also adds a background service (which autostarts at boot) that eats 500M+ of memory even when the main program isn't running. When it IS running, it's combined system usage is over a gig of memory.
Second is speed. The scanner itself scans receipts in quickly, taking only a second or two for a standard receipt, 5 or so for a letter sized page. The software then takes 30 to 90 seconds (2Ghz laptop w/ 2G of ram here) to "scanalyze" the receipt, depending on size and image quality. There is no way to batch scan receipts and put off the rest for later, so you're stuck waiting for it if you have multiple receipts. If you're lucky, it gleans and auto-enters data for 4 or 5 fields and/or auto crops and rotates your receipt. If not, you have to do that manually.
It also claims to organize other documents. But other documents it means recipes and newspaper clippings, which are about all it knows how to do outside of receipts. It can scan and store letter sized documents and pictures, but it then spends lots of time trying to "scanalyze" it, even though it's not a receipt, before finally giving up and letting you enter data manually. The interface is clunky at best, more so when you're trying to scan multiple pages from a document in. And if the scanner get unplugged from the USB port (which is very easy to do), you lose, as the software can not see the scanner again until you close it and re-open it, which takes at least a minute.
Finally we get to export. The QIF data is great, but most recent Quicken products no long accept the QIF format. And if you happen to have an older version, you're limited in what you can do with that data in any case. I've also yet to get it to export a single PDF properly, so I can't say much about that except that it's totally busted. And while I'm sure the tax reports it makes are really nice, who's going to use scanner software to print tax forms for filing?
Overall, the hardware is great, but the software is very lacking. It's nice that they offer a twain driver in the bundle so you can use other software with the scanning wand. But even that interface is clunky, and only supports one image at a time scanning. So doing anything multipage is painful, and the buttons on the device are useless outside of the supplied software package. Again, it does what it says, but only that, and not that quickly.
Also... It doesn't work on Vista. Period. They've released a few patches to try to update it, but they didn't work. And it now looks like they've given up on the older version and are trying to get people to update to the newest line of software (for a modest fee of course).
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: not compatable with windows
Review: simply put it isn't compatable with all recent versions of windows, there is a petition to try and get the company to respond to this. Until they do you should NOT BUY IT, and let the company know why.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great for home receipts - not a business solution
Review: For a home receipt solution this would be a great product, but as far as a business solution it requires twice as much data entry then just using quickbooks. It worked fantastic with outlook contacts and the sync was flawless, but of our over 200 vendors not a single invoice could be recognized.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: neatreceipts scanner
Review: I've been using the scanner to organize my business receipts. Its been a big help in keeping track of my expenses. No complaints so far.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Makes completing expense reports really easy
Review: I am a consultant and am self employed and I track exepnses and bill them to my clients - or I lose money. I bought one of these about 3 weeks ago and it's awesome. It is really smart (or the software is) and when it scans a receipt it moves the amounts right into the excel spreadsheet I use. Wow, once in awhile technology really works!