NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner

I’ve been working on creating a paperless office and my NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac has been a great help.

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.