📚 Efficient Digital Filing Made Easy: NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Filing System for Mac Review

I've had this system for almost a year now and am using Neat Scanner just a few months after buying it. This device is just a waste of money; It scans single-sided pages (which usually need to be held by hand to keep them from curling) at a very slow and inefficient speed. Those with decent hardware in mind should check out their high-end devices. I later got the significantly more powerful Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M, which is light years ahead of NeatCo's hardware (even their "more powerful"…

I bought this to clean up. The software is great (once you figure out how to use it, which isn't easy). The scanner works well with thick paper like business cards and some receipts, but is almost impossible with thinner paper, especially letter-size paper. I have not yet received a single sheet of paper to feed directly. No matter how carefully I align the paper, the scanner curls and rotates it so that it's at a 30-degree angle halfway through. It comes out crooked and the resulting scan is…

NeatCo has, perhaps on purpose, developed the most customer-unfriendly, onerous, and pointlessly lengthy technical support ever conceived. I think their tech support purposely hates hearing from their customers so they put together the following system. First, they cannot be reached by phone. You call their number and get a phone message (on a loop) repeatedly asking you to come back to their site for maintenance. You go to their website and MUST select a set of predefined items from their drop

NeatReceipts is a good idea, nicely packaged but the product just doesn't live up to the advertised specs. The software is limited and buggy, and if something doesn't work - as others have complained here - the support is simply non-existent. Early on in my experience with the product, I found that the data I entered was regularly disappearing. I closed the program and when I reopened it later it was obvious that the scans and manually entered data were never properly saved or otherwise lost in

This scanner saves lives. As the head of the house, I get tons of receipts and it's absolutely annoying to organize them all. This makes it very easy to organize not only my receipts but also my regular paperwork. Now I scan almost everything. The OCR recognition works well. If I type a word or two for what I'm looking for, the documents are quickly listed in the search results. First you need to spend a little time making the system "smart" - the first batches of receipts you need sometimes…

I purchased the Mac version of this item after someone told me the software version 5.5 was actually usable. Well, the Mac version only goes up to 4.1, but I understand there might be a different versioning scheme for Mac and Windows. never mind However, Mac software sucks. I'm using Yosemite on a 1 year old full featured iMac. It's not a problem that my gear isn't up to the task. I tried installing the Neat software from the CD that came with it; it broke. I downloaded the latest software from

So a good friend of mine who is a producer/DJ told me I need to know about this Neat scanner and I've always wanted one so I decided to adopt it. I'm actually glad I did it. The quality of the scanner is fantastic. In fact, I've dropped it several times on a hard wooden floor and it hasn't broken yet, which is very important to me. The quality of the scans is also good and the installation for my computer (MacMini) was easy and very easy. I didn't have a CD drive so I had to go to Neat.com to…

(Product: NeatReceipts mobile scanner for Mac with software update 3.5. fast. Earlier than expected which was great I had on Some weekend time to play around with the scanner and here's my first reaction to using the hardware, software and "living" with it over the past two days.(Hopefully I'll update this review in the future, this is a Product that I have my sights on for a long time but now that I finally got it my first recommendation is if you think you need to digitize your life, you…