NeatReceipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0 by NeatReceipts
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Digital camera reviews of NeatReceipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0
Digital camera Review: Best office tool ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased a NeatReceipts scanner about 2 years ago, and love it. My two best reasons are as follows.
First, I went through an audit last year and the auditor sat next to me and looked over the various receipts she wanted more info on, and asked me to print out a couple and I was out of there in 2 1/2 hours. No muss, no fuss. She even gave me credit for some things she saw that I had missed. I ended up getting enough money back to more than cover the cost of NeatReceipts.
Second, I had both my cars broken into in front of my house one morning. They swiped both my GPS units. When I talked to the insurance company, they needed proof on purchase date and price. I searched thru my Neat Receipts database by vendor and found them in 2 minutes. I printed them out to PDF and e-mailed them to the adjuster. He could not believe it! He had them 5 minutes after I filed my claim, and wired the money to my account the next day. HE called me to make sure I got it, and told me how he wished more of his customers were that good at recordkeeping. Thanks Neat Receipts!!
Digital camera Review: Buggy software and poor support
Summary: 1 Stars
In concept this is a great product and I would love it if it worked reliably, but for me it did not. I encountered persistent errors at start up and when trying to execute certain functions like scan to pdf or back up receipts database. I know from the product technical support forums that others were getting the exact same problem, but no solution was forthcoming. A trouble ticket was issued for my problem but it was never resolved and I stopped receiving replies. I had problems getting hold of technical support. Unfortunately I have to return the product, which is most inconvenient.Digital camera Review: Buyer beware; a few hiccups for the novice owner
Summary: 2 Stars
I give the product two stars after having it for only a few days. I say "beware" to the novice (like myself) for a few good reasons.
Portable scanner- it's not. There are two main reasons it's not truly portable. First, it's not self powered or contains any internal memory. It must be powered up by the supplied USB cable (which for a RH person seems awkward with the cable on top feeding paper from right to left- but we'll overlook that)thus portability is quite limited. You cannot attend a trade show and scan all those business cards they might make you think you can- unless you drag around the power supply also....
Secondly, while you might choose to lug around a laptop for powering this unit it will only actually work on a laptop (or pc) to which the full software program has been installed. Meaning you cannot tap a bit of USB from Bob at the Widget booth to scan his latest product card- unless Bob's computer has the Neat software installed. And even if you did...the scan will remain on Bob's computer after you scan it, not on yours!
For me this is somewhat counter productive as I'd hoped to scan receipts at my shop and work on filing them later at home. No can do! I'd need the software in BOTH computers then after scanning them at the shop I'd have to thumb drive them or such to take them home with me, then import them to file them. And later delete all the uselessenss on the shop pc. Far easier to haul all the paperwork home (again?) and do it there.
The software did not load as planned when installed. To their credit Neat was good with phone tech and prompt. They got me up and running after moving files around in the C-drive that were incorrectly loaded. (2yr old XP with modest specs) After working the software for a few hours and trying to figure out how to make a file system I began to scan about 40 receipts to take it for a test drive. Scans look clear but many were loaded into Documents and not receipts given they were full page. Neat did a reasonable job of reading true thermal paper 2" wide receipts but can't understand "tips" to get the proper total. Full page receipts were often (well over 50%) not to the proper amounts so each one needed to be edited before I filed it.
For me the jury is still out. So far I don't see any time really saved over my old school receipt filing. With the transfer of paper, the scanning, the moving of files in the software, then having to review and edit way many of them before done it's as much work (or more) than I had previously. Just different work.
I'll look for other uses but I'm thinking like other add-ons this one's another "cool idea" that's not ready for prime time.
Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY THIS INFERIOR PRODUCT !!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
There's not much more to say. The software is completely unreliable and unstable that you can very easily lose all your scans.Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY v3.0 - it's not current version or upgradeable for free
Summary: 1 Stars
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE -- I would suggest that you NOT purchase the NeatReceipts v.3 product. Version 3 is the old software, and the data file is not upgradeable to Windows 7 without a paid upgrade to NeatReceipts v.4 which is their current version software. I have owned the 4.0 version for over a year now, so if someone is still selling v.3 you are getting ripped off. I would reccomend the v.4 product though and will review that separately.