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Electronics NeatReceipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0

Domain Name Com's - Electronics : NeatReceipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0

- Not a good idea, not a good product.
The idea of a very limited scanner for only receipts is not that great. In anycase in the company I work, one was bought. The software is very big and takes over a lot of resources. It sets up a SQL database just to handle receipts. Using the device was very difficult to scan correctly. Only if the paper goes in a certain way, you can not push it too much but also you can not leave it to take the paper by itself, etc very tricky. The device cannot be connected with 'some' USB hubs (I tried several powered ones (2) and non powered ones (3) and none worked so make sure you have one USB port free right in your PC). And eventually, the computer was shut down, the software stoped functioning and was impossible to uninstall without complete reformat of the PC (System Restore to before installation of the scanner failed). The drastic step of reformat was taken since the software would not allow any other TWAIN source to be installed and when time came to install a REAL scanner the reformat was necessary. Same yourself some trouble. Get a free Print to PDF freeware and a regular scanner and you are done without headaches.

Rating:

- NEAT Receipts works NEAT
I purchased the NEAT Receipts Professional Mobile Receipt Scanner on the suggestion of a colleague. I was most interested as I have several businesses which require that I keep copious receipts for tax purposes. In addition, I attend several conferences per year where multiple pages of documents are handed out and with limited luggage space, taking these pages home requires extra room. This device for scanning works incredibly well for my purposes. It is easy to operate and gives me all the necessary information to keep track of all my documents and receipts on my computer or pen drive. It is USB compatible which makes it easy to take with me using my laptop computer. When I return home, I always have the information regarding travel, meals, accomodations, etc. at my fingertips in a matter of seconds. At the end of the year this should save me a lot of time when preparing for tax season. I am very impressed by its ease of use and what it can do.

Rating:

- Great Idea; Great Product, Needs Software Overhaul/improvements: V3 -SP1
I purchased this product roughly 1 month ago; had a need to scan documents, receipts, business cards. Since I travel on business, the portability came in quite handy. (Great idea for a product for the typical road warrior) Here's some overall Good points & suggestions for improvements.

The Good:
Hardware:
Very portable, light weight, easy to hook up, uses a very common interface, comes with a easy travel pack, doesn't take up too much space on the desk, comes with a nice little stand & a wall mounting option; and a hidden little compartment to hide the soft carrying case.

Software:
Intuitive interface, easy to install, clear instructions, works well for a small scanner, scans in color!!, has OCR, scans multiple forms of documents (does what it advertises)

Suggested Improvements: (ranked from highest need to lowest)
Hardware:
1) USB cable doesn't fit in the soft travel bag. Can you make it bigger or with a couple of velcro straps to carry the USB cable. As anyone who travels knows, if it isn't packed together, it'll get lost, or tangled in the , left in the hotel room.
2) Consider changing from USB B type to Mini USB. The hardware states it runs on 5V, 500mA; so it doesn't seem to me that it needed the USB type B connection. Does it really use that much power to run a scanner? These days with many cell phones, PDAs, Blackberries, and digital cameras all using the mini-USB cable; the USB type B cable is less commonly used. (Personal opinion) From looking at the use of it, it seems the USB is mostly used as a data transmission line.
3) Cable too stiff, too long; and get rid of that toroidal ferrite thing hanging on the end of the USB type B cable. It's too big & bulky. Stiff cables makes it harder to sit the scanner flat on the table. Maybe the engineers who designed this decided the set length USB is cheaper; but in use, I would think a shorter USB cable doesn't get in the way and would work better.
4) Other minor misc issues: change the USB cable color to black, it will look better as the cable jacket wears, scuffed and discolored. Consider making a marking on the stand more intuitive because the scanner only sits in the stand one way.
5) That hardshell hardware case is quite nice, I just wish you would have put a little marketing flyer inside the original box to let me know the hardshell hardware case was available.

Software:
1) This software takes forever to open. You click on the icon and it takes about 15-30 seconds before the opening screen even pops up on the screen. Next to Adobe Acrobat; this is the longest loading software program. ...and functionally it shouldn't be that slow should it?
2) Memory Usage is too big. Because it took so long to open, I started opening the Windows Task Manager just to see if the program is running or not. I have noticed it takes quite surprizingly a large amount of memory. Why is this software such a memory hog? (Again: I'm using Version 3, SP1)
3) Can you incorporate a drag and drop feature into the various cells of the business card & receipts section of the software program? I understand OCR is difficult to implement correctly; I would not mind correcting it if I didn't have to retype all the correctly scanned words and just putting it in the correct data cell. This would make things much more intuitive and easier to work with. This same drag & drop feature would work nicely if you could allow scanned files to move from one section to another. [receipts section/Documents section/Business cards section] I frequently don't remember to click on the right category before it's scanned.
4) Can you put in the opening screen a load % progress bar so it's more intuitive how long before the program is up and running?
5) Maybe there's a preset I've not clicked on, but does it always start with the receipts section? ...can you make it use the last setting I left with when I closed the program last time or make it a preference setting option?
6) Perhaps this might have something to do with memory usage; but can you make the default image file format JPG instead of BMP? Bitmap images are generally really big for the resolution you get.
7) If possible, can you change the blinking LED setting on the scanner blink until the image is completely transferred to the PC? Being a portable device, similar to a digital camera, it would be nice if there was something telling me not to unplug the thing before the image finished transfered.
8) I've noticed there's a greater frequency of software crashing when the USB cable is hooked into the USB hub instead of the USB port on the PC/Laptop. Is this a software stability issue?
9) simple image editing. This is a low priority software improvement suggestion, but it would be nice if there was a way to allow me to do some simple image cropping or rotating so the image size is smaller. I noticed frequently I'm scanning in other things on the paper I'm not interested in. It would be nice if I could crop it out so it doesn't take up extra memory space.

Overall, please don't let my comments reflect negatively on the product. It's a great product idea...I think the software could improve greatly. This should not prevent me from buying the product since software can easily be upgraded via the internet. Restating this another way: Product Idea: 5 stars. Software implementation: 1 or 2 stars.

thanks,
Will

Rating:

- DO NOT BUY THIS INFERIOR PRODUCT !!!!
There's not much more to say. The software is completely unreliable and unstable that you can very easily lose all your scans.

Rating:

- Less than outstanding performance
NEAT Receipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0
This is a truly great idea, but the execution leaves much to be desired. The scanner has a great difficulty with any receipt which does not have a perfectly straight, smooth edge and it will skew the receipt if it has folds--particularly on thermal receipts. Cannot seem to remember company logos and names or to recognize them if they are not printed very clearly. You cannot split a receipt without it splitting the Sales Tax and therefore, in a state like Washington, where you can deduct the Sales Tax, the records are inaccurate if part of what you purchased was non-taxable and part was taxable. Does not play well with Quicken, interface with anything newer than Quicken 5.0 is awkward and very inadequate at best. It can be done, but not smoothly. Cannot split a receipt as Quicken does leaving a single total with different portions of that receipt allocated to different categories. The only thing it can do that with is Sales Tax which it insists must be exported as "Tax:Sales", and you cannot change that. Business cards can only be scanned into a single file, so you can't build a Supplier file and a Client file. NeatReceipts would do well to spend a great effort to allow flexibility and ease in interfacing with programs such as Quicken, Money, etc. Even adapt some of the "Look and feel" of the programs with which the user intends to interface.

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