NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner
I’ve been working on creating a paperless office and my NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac
The scanner is small and powered by USB so it doesn’t need a power cable. You put paper in it and press the scan button. It scans, does OCR and saves the file as a PDF. In the software, it decides if the paper is a receipt, a document or a business card. Then, it gathers the information off of the paper and adds it to a database.
It doesn’t do a perfect job putting the right information in the right fields but it’s close enough to get you pretty far along. You can go through the inbox of the program, quickly make any corrections to scans and file them away.
Once the documents are in the computer, the information is searchable. The scanner software saves the documents as standard, universally readable PDFs.
The original paper can go into the shredder.
#1 by Tad Harrison on February 22nd, 2009 - 6:06 pm
How do you like the software that came with it? I have never used NeatReceipts, but the name keeps cropping up and I’m interested in how flexible its software is.
FYI, I just posted about a bunch of useful tools for the Paperless Office. Good luck going paperless!
http://paperjammed.com/2009/02/22/what-should-you-have-in-your-toolbox/
#2 by Chip on February 23rd, 2009 - 11:30 am
@ Tad Harrison
The software is stable and the OCR does a good job. Most receipts and business cards need to be checked and edited if you want to make sure your accounting app and contact manager are receiving accurate information from NeatReceipts. It’s pretty quick and easy to do that. Documents don’t really need to be edited unless you want to give them a specific title.