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10/24/2012

Checkmate CMR430 POS MICR Check Reader RS232 RS485 Review

Checkmate CMR430 POS MICR Check Reader RS232 RS485
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This is a very strange device. It comes with a power adapter and no place to plug the power adapter in. The instruction manual seems to imply there may be a cord (connector) and will be a sheet (that shows how to set it up), but no such connector cable was with it or sheet. The pin arrangement on the device seems at least to a certain degree, to be unique to the brand. If you want this particular device to work, you may end up buying a $50 cord. Even with that, how does it power up without a power port? I ended up getting a used Magtek from ebay and looking up the part numbers for the connector cable and power supply. It all came together and it can read checks.

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5/27/2012

Irispen Translator 6 Review

Irispen Translator 6
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It was the most horrible experience. The box promisses that the pen will translate from 11 language pairs including German - Russian. When I installed it it comes out that it translates only from English and to English. I called their customer survice in the US. They were totally incompetent and said that the box is incorrect. I talked to the fist represenatative who answered the phone and his supervisor. Next day I called their customer support in Belgium and it comes out that I had to install German language which was on the same CD. After installation it started working, however the translation is absolutely ridiculous. We had several good laughs and returning this product. It can not translate simple sentences, it gives the most ridiculuous translation of individual words and the customer support in the states should be fired if IRIS wants to stay in business

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5/10/2012

NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting Review

NeatReceipts Scanner and Software for Expense Management and Reporting
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I am a consultant and am self employed and I track exepnses and bill them to my clients - or I lose money. I bought one of these about 3 weeks ago and it's awesome. It is really smart (or the software is) and when it scans a receipt it moves the amounts right into the excel spreadsheet I use. Wow, once in awhile technology really works!

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2/16/2012

Certify Receipt Scanner with Certify Wallet Review

Certify Receipt Scanner with Certify Wallet
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The Certify Receipt Scanner is a great solution for receipts. It interfaces with the Certify expense management product with one easy click. Once my receipt has been scanned, I can add it to an expense report and submit this to my boss online for review and approval.
When I received the scanner, I simply installed the software, plugged the scanner into my laptop, and started scanning receipts into Certify. Totally simple! Also, I am able to use the scanner with my other programs including Adobe Acrobat, the entire MS Office suite, as well as my various illustrator programs.

Certify is a complete expense management solution and this scanner is really simple and easy to use. If you are looking for a receipt scanner, this one is great.

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1/30/2012

Wacces MINI HANDY HAND-HELD PORTABLE SCANNER 600dpi Review

Wacces MINI HANDY HAND-HELD PORTABLE SCANNER 600dpi
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This is a great scanner. Very small and light. It works fast and the image quality is good. Some things to note: The batteries it came with were dead, leading me to believe intially that the product was faulty. But if this should happen to you, just pop in a fresh pair and you're good to go. Also, there is no internal memory for scanned items, so to do any scanning whatsoever, you need the SD card. Best get that along with purchasing the scanner.
The scanner is perfect for the office or quickly capturing an image or two off a book page, however, although small and thin, don't expect it to get into those hard to reach corners of large books. Though designed to get to most places other scanners cannot, to truly scan an entire book, you'll need to separate the binding in which case you'll be just as well off with a flat bed scanner. But the scanner is still a good accessory for the student on the go.
Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase and recommend this product.

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11/18/2011

Visioneer Strobe XP 300 Duplex Mobile Scanner PDF TWAIN (SXP3005D-WU) Review

Visioneer Strobe XP 300 Duplex Mobile Scanner PDF TWAIN (SXP3005D-WU)
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I am a 10 year user of the Visioneer Strobe line of scanners. When my first one died, I purchased the cool new XP100. It was cool, but didn't work very well at all and I went back to the strobe. Now it was time to get a new scanner -- the XP 300. Sound promising, but I found they removed all kinds of features and there is a flaw in the paper return mechanism that they know about, but keep shipping the product. Firt, the paper return. When you push it to the open position, it is supposed to return the paper to you, but instead, it just keeps feeding the paper out the back rather than back to you. Visioneer reports this is a known problem, but still promote this feature in their manuals and marketing. As for the drivers, when you use the One Touch 4.0 driver, it uses a very old version of the Adobe Acrobat conversion utility (v.1.2). The issue with this is that when Paperport picks up the scan, it thinks all scans come in at 150dpi and 24bit color. The problem is that unless the image is at least 200dpi, Paperport won't let you manipulate the image in page view mode (rotate individual pages, despeckle, straighten, etc.). Also, they removed the ability to set the delay to begin automatically scanning. The issue is that it begins to scan so fast that it misfeed the top couple of inches of the paper and causes distorted scans at the top. Further, it is extrememly hard (as on the XP100) to get a piece of paper lined up quickly. With the old Stobes, the paper path was conducive to quickly inserting paper, but with the XP300, you have to align it perfectly or the paper guides snag the paper.
All of this creates too much frustration for me. I was advised to downgrade to the XP200, which retains all of the features and functionality of yesteryear. They really took two steps backwards with this product. It is a shame!

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11/03/2011

IRIScan Executive 2 Review

IRIScan Executive 2
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IRIScan Executive 2 is a compact, portable, sheet fed, color scanner. IRIScan is USB powered, thus making it easy to use anywhere. The Mac version includes the OCR software Readiris Pro 11 for scanning text documents and photographs; and Cardiris 4 for scanning business cards..
I installed IRIScan on a Mac Book G4 running Mac OS X 10.5.2. Following the installation instructions I installed the Readiris Pro 11 software then plugged the IRIScan into a USB port. I next calibrated the scanner using the provided calibration sheet and was all set to begin. I chose a text document, fed it into the scanner and waited. The scanned result was a blank page I tried again, same result. I chose another document and once again it produced a blank page. The Quick Start Guide was of little use. I checked the settings and tried several more times but nothing happened. Because it was late in the evening I put it away and decided I would check it out another day.
My next experience began the same way, so I opened up the electronic 128 page User's Manual. I spent two hours reading the manual, which didn't have any troubleshooting information and no instructions relating to my problem, making minor changes in the settings, and trying to scan. Finally success! However, I don't really know what made the difference.
The first document I scanned had several inaccuracies in the final product. The User's Manual explains that there are so many fonts and styles and sometimes there are extra dots left on the page and the OCR has trouble interpreting the text, but there is a Learn button in the program that will allow it to learn the unrecognized font or letters.

I continued scanning several documents from different sources. They all scanned word-for-word perfect. One had a format discrepancy. A nice feature of this software is all documents can be saved to any text or word processing application and be edited and adjusted.
I was happy with the text scanning results and wanted to try photos. The photo scans were a complete failure. The black and white pictures were like negatives and the color photos were blotchy with lots of white space. I gave up on photos and decided to install the Cardiris software.
Cardiris installed quickly, I connected the IRIScan, opened the software and nothing. It would not work. It was then that I discovered an update for Cardiris which I quickly downloaded and installed. It connected with the IRIScan immediately and I was ready to try scanning business cards. What a great tool. The business cards are accurately scanned and can be saved in the Cardiris database, the contact information can also be added to your Address Book. The information can be sent to applications such as Microsoft Entourage, New Contact, Microsoft Excel and others. Cardiris was very accurate in reading the cards and inserting the information in the correct places in Address Book even when scanning a "busy" card.
I still wasn't able to scan photos, so during my next session with IRIScan I checked the website for information but there is no help for Mac posted. I finally decided to email support. I received a reply back in about two hours. They had me re-calibrate. Afterwards I tried scanning black & white photos, they weren't much better. Then I changed the setting from black & white to grayscale and tried again. This setting change corrected the problem with black & white photos and the resulting scans were great, but i still didn't have a solution for the color photos.
I emailed support again late at night and had an answer in the morning. This time they said to change one of the settings from Automatic to Custom. It worked! Now i can produce beautiful scanned copies of color photographs.
The software included with IRIScan is definitely not written for Mac OS X . I found the interface to be quite awkward and the supplied user information inadequate. However, the support response was quick and courteous.
You are able to save your text scans in many different editable files, PDF, word processing, text edit, email, etc. The Windows version of IRIScan includes a photo editing program which would have been useful in the Mac version. I had to crop my photos after saving them to get rid of the extra black background surrounding the picture.
The Windows version also includes a translation program that will automatically translate from one language to another. I was able to successfully scan in a German document but the translation feature does not exist in the Mac version.
The IRIScan is lightweight, small and portable with USB connection.. You are able to scan full page documents, business cards and photos with up to 600 DPI. Colors are bright and text is clear. The speed is slow.
Though my initial start up with IRIScan was frustrating I now can scan documents, photos, and business cards almost flawlessly. Because of its size and portability it is a good tool to take along wherever you may travel. If you are considering purchasing an IRIScan for a Mac you may want to look at the IRIScan Express 2. The additional price for the Executive 2 includes software that is for Windows only.

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9/23/2011

NeatReceipts 4 Plus USB Mobile Office Scanner and Digital Filing System Review

NeatReceipts 4 Plus USB Mobile Office Scanner and Digital Filing System
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I was very happy with this until one day it decided to stop working. And then there is no support, no responses to email support requests, no online help, no suggestions. I wonder how they stay in business.

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9/18/2011

iVina BulletScan M80 Mobile Color Duplex Scanner (M802080) Review

iVina BulletScan M80 Mobile Color Duplex Scanner (M802080)
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This scanner is not very big, very conveinient to use and manage files, fast scanning process
and usefull tool to have. it comes with twain software and other helpful pdf tools from adobe.
I travel alot so its great to take it with me everywhere I go. scans in color and in black and white, multiple pages in less than a minute.
This is a Social writeup

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9/16/2011

CSSN A6 Duplex ID card Scanner Scanshell 800DXN Review

CSSN A6 Duplex ID card Scanner Scanshell 800DXN
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Useless. Says it comes with all this software... comes with a cardboard circle telling you to download software online. No instructions at ALL. Support website listed no longer exists. Tried to download software, requires a license key, which of course was not included... neither customer service nor tech support was able to provide me with one, so couldn't use almost any of the software. Neither attempted to be very helpful. Returned it unused out of sheer frustration the same day I got it. Who needs a $400 paperweight? AVOID CSSN

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8/31/2011

Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner Review

Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner
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We use this scanner to digitally file our statements and bills. It scans quickly and quietly, without the need for an adapter and without taking much space on one's desk. It partners well with Adobe Acrobat -- we have Acrobat Professional which allows us to crop document edges if the original is less than 8.5 x 11 -- and I've seen no software compatability issues with Windows XP Home or XP Professional. It also allows you to continuously scan multiple page documents (as opposed to scanning each page as its own PDF file).
The one criticism that I have has to do with the software that accompanies the scanner. It does not apparently remember the last settings (e.g., resolution, color vs B&W, and destination directory) so you have to re-enter all of these each time you sit down to scan.
We haven't tried using it for any graphics purpose, but from what I can tell, it's not likely to perform like a flatbed scanner for this purpose, at least for serious graphics work. For a casual scan of a photo for a document or a webpage, it would probably work just fine.
Absolutely satisfied!

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Weighing in at less than 12 ounces and measuring just 11 inches wide, the Pentax DSmobile lets you carry around all you need to scan everything from a business card to an 8.5 by 14 inch document. The scanner draws power from its USB interface so no clunky AC adapter is needed. Bring it along with you and you can instantly transmit a printed page via email, fax, or the web. The scanner has a hardware optical resolution of 300 dpi and the included OCR software automatically converts the document to editable text.
The scanner uses a Contact Image Sensor (CIS) to achieve its smaller volume and lighter weight, and also requires less power consumption and lower maintenance than a traditional CCD. The DSmobile has few moving parts, which promotes high reliability and nearly maintenance-free operation. It consumes only 0.2 watt of power in standby mode and a maximum of 2.2 watts of power when scanning. The Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner is compatible with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. It is backed by a 1-year warranty.
What's in the Box DSmobile 600 scanner, leather case, 35-inch USB cable, user's manual, instllation guide, software CD, calibration card, and two 5x7-inch photo-scan sleeves.

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8/15/2011

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

NeatReceipts Professional Mobile Receipt and Document Scanner and Software Combination Version 3.0
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This thing is amazing. In an attempt to become organized I have been trying out new software and methods lately. After some research I decided to give this little gizmo a try. I figured if I hated it I could always return it. No such chance! I'm in love with this thing.
Anyway here it goes.... This thing slices, it dices, it does it all. It's so easy to learn that anyone can get the hang of it.
It has three sections. One for receipts, one for 'documents' and one for business cards. Each section lets me create folders. I created folders like 'Ty's Tax Write-offs' and 'Electronics' and 'Home Improvement' in the receipts section.
I click on a 'Folder' and place the receipt in the scanner and hit scan. It pulls the receipt through. It recognizes over 1500 major retailers like Best Buy, Target, etc. If it doesn't recognize it, you type in the business name. Here's a cool feature; the next time you scan a receipt from that company the thing recognizes the receipt and names it by the correct business.
It picks out the tax, the total amount on the receipt and then reads all the remaining text and it indexes it.
This means that if I bought my ipod and scanned it I can type in 'ipod' or 'apple' and it finds the correct receipt. It's awesome. I have started scanning in all of our receipts past and present. Before we visited our accountant I scanned in all of our tax write-offs and ran a report on numbers.
You can click on a particular receipt and it brings up a copy of it. You can print it, pdf it, etc.
You can search by category, business name, amounts, anything.
The documents section is handy too. I'm scanning in all our loan documents, home documents, legal documents, extended warranty information, etc.
The program is amazing and in my opinion that is really what you're paying for is the program. The scanner is pretty great too though. It pulls through receipts of any size and shape with little problem.
Essentially what you're getting is an amazing high tech filing cabinet for $200.
To those that gave it low ratings... it's technology. No it's not perfect, but it's pretty darned nice for the price. I scanned in probably 60 receipts in the first hour and I was just learning how to use it. I would have spent that much time just filing them in a filing cabinet. I had few problems and overall it recognized probably 85% of the vendors and prices correctly.

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NeatReceipts Version 3.0 is the easiest way for individuals and small businesses to manage expenses, prepare for taxes, create expense reports, and scan business cards. But it not all just for business--you can also use Neat Receipts for scrapbooking, archiving family recipes, and other family activities. NEAT Receipts is a portable scanner and software solution that accurately scans receipts, documents and business cards. Patented technology scans items and captures data from the printed documents, then automatically organizes into a database.
Organize Your Paper, Simplify Your Life
Maintain accurate records of all your expenses. Analyze your spending by vendor, date, project, client and more.

Take Pain Out of Tax Prep - IRS-accepted! Because your NEAT Receipts scans are IRS-accepted digital copies, you'll be incredibly organized for taxes. You can even export to TurboTax.

Create A Document DatabaseEasily manage documents for your business, home or both. Quickly find information with keyword search. Create PDF files or convert printed documents to editable text.

Digitize Your Business CardsGetting business cards into Outlook®, your PDA, or other contact management solution id a breeze. NEAT Receipts automatically extracts key data with stunning accuracy.

Automate Your Expense ReportsWith all your receipts in crisp, digital format, creating professional expense reports is fast and easy. The perfect tool for business travelers!

Exports data to Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Money, Quickbooks, Quicken, TurboTax, TaxCut, csv, vCard, Plaxo, ACT!, HTML and more.

How NeatReciepts Works
NeatScan Technology Using advanced Optical Character Recognition, NeatScan technology (patent pending) extracts key information from your receipts, such as date, amount, payment method, expense category and vendor. If you scan in business cards, NeatScan automatically pulls out information like name, company, address, phone numbers, email address etc.
NeatScan actually learns to associate an expense category (such as meals or lodging) to a particular vendor (brands such as Starbucks or Hilton) so you don't have to type in the information each time. This ensures that your financial records are filed consistently and with minimal effort.
Each user of NeatReceipts Professional 3.0 receives the NeatReceipts scanner--a lightweight, portable, durable color scanner. Our software was designed with this scanner in mind and offers the following unmatched functionality:
Auto-sizes any scanned receipt or document.
Auto-crops and auto-rotates any scanned receipt or document.
Scan widthwise or lengthwise -- the image will appear upright in image viewer.
Powered by USB port, so no plug needed (it's truly portable!).
Scans quickly and easily without opening and closing scanner lid (flatbed).
Small, portable and lightweight. Perfect for the office, the home and the road!
What's New with NeatReceipts 3.0
Scan to PDF - In just a few easy steps, you can convert paper documents into PDF format.
Searchable PDF - Easily turns paper into searchable PDF files and allows you to edit text via copy / paste function.

Smart SortingTM - Allows users to scan multiple document types using batch-type processing and automatically organizes each document type.

Keyword Search - Search through receipts, business cards and documents for specific keywords that appear in scanned text.

Convert to Editable Text - Convert printed documents to text that you can edit.

Windows Vista Compatible - We are now fully compatible with Windows Vista.

What's in the Box Scanner, carrying case, stand


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8/11/2011

NeatReceipts 4 Plus USB Mobile Office Scanner and Digital Filing System for Windows XP, Vista and 7 PC Users, Includes Travel Case, NeatWorks Version 4.0, PDF Transformer Software and More - Export to Excel, Word, TurboTax and Quickbooks Review

NeatReceipts 4 Plus USB Mobile Office Scanner and Digital Filing System for Windows XP, Vista and 7 PC Users, Includes Travel Case, NeatWorks Version 4.0, PDF Transformer Software and More - Export to Excel, Word, TurboTax and Quickbooks
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I loved the concept of scanning and storing my receipts, but I was skeptical and anxious that this scanner would truly suit my needs....I pictured it becoming another "toy" that didn't quite work out as hoped. To fuel my concern, there are some negative reviews of previous versions of the scanner including the fact that you have to edit some information (including Vendor name, amount, etc).
I bought it anyway and I am thrilled with how it's working. I have found the scans to be about 90% accurate. The editing, when necessary, is quick and easy.
I am sure that some "high tech" people will find some things to criticize how the software works and exports to various programs. However, I don't always know how what tax form to file certain receipts under anyway, so I don't get fancy --I just file all business receipts in a folder and will print out for my accountant. In other words, the basic functioning works great.
I'm terrible with receipts and paperwork, and this gives me a place to store everything and not lose it! This is a HUGE time saver for me and I am de-cluttering my life! I scan everything that I don't want to lose.
I love this product!

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8/05/2011

Neat Co. Neat Desk - Macintosh Review

Neat Co. Neat Desk - Macintosh
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I really really really wanted to like this scanner. I received the unit on Friday and had planned on spending Saturday scanning in all my documents and then relaxing on Sunday. I am sooooo disappointed with the quality of the scans and software when scanning in documents like car insurance or doctors statements that I am sending it back.
The main issue is that the manufacture's web site states that the scanner can scan grayscale and B/W documents in at a rate of 25 PPM. This is an outright lie on one level and a stretching of the truth on another level.
First let me start off with the truth stretching. The scanner is very fast while scanning in B/W images but it did not seam like it was 25 PPM fast so I timed it using a stop watch. I was able to scan in a page (two sides) in 6.4 seconds that's 10 PPM not 25! As Fujitsu rates their ScanSnap S1500M at 20 PPM whether you scan one or two sides, I assumed I would see the NeatDesk scanner do the same. Thinking that they (NeatCo) must have been playing with some slick marketing numbers when they came up with the 25 PPM rate I figured I would see the 10 PPM rate double to 20 if I only scanned one side of a page instead of two. I was very disappointed to see that the rate did not change between one or two sides. Normally I would think that 10 PPM is a very quick scan, which it is, but it is more than half as fast as advertised.
That was the truth stretching now onto the lie.
My main complaint is not the scan rate of B/W or grayscale scans. I would be very happy with a 10 PPM grayscale document scanner. The problem is that the scanner / software package does NOT scan in grayscale. The scanner DOES send the images to my iMac in GRAYSCALE and then the horrible software converts it to B/W. Yes you heard me right! They take a perfectly legible (8 bit, 256 levels of black) grayscale image and turn it into a very poor quality B/W (2 bit, 2 color) illegible image. I can't for the life of me understand why they would do such a thing.
If you are only interested in scanning in receipts, which by their nature are only black and white, then you might be happy with the software. Unfortunately about 95% of the stuff I wanted to scan is various types of documents / kids school work / insurance papers / medical records etc. If you have ever looked at these kinds of documents you will notice that most of them have shaded areas on the page that highlight important text. These shaded areas, along with the text, usually become unreadable when converted to B/W. Not only can I not able to read them the OCR can't detect them either. It makes me angry to see a scan show up on the screen that looks GREAT only to have it destroyed a few seconds later by the software as it converts it to black and white.

I contacted NeatCo about the ability to scan to grayscale. Their support person was very nice and polite; unfortunately she confirmed for me that the software does not support grayscale. Her response is at the end of the review.You may think that I should just scan in color. Unfortunately scanning in color is very slow. A color scan took 15 seconds for a single sided page and 27.5 seconds for a single 2-sided page (weird that color scans do double the time for 2 sides unlike the BW option). At this rate it puts color scans in at 2 PPM not the 8.5 reported on their web site. At 2 PPM it will take me several hundred hours to scan everything I need to scan.
The quality of color scans is very good if you are willing to wait 30 seconds for a single 2-sided scan.
Here are my timing results for the BW, color, 1 side and 2 sided document. All times are for a single sheet of paper.
Page Sides |Color Mode |Time to Scan|Total time to scan & OCR 1st page
1 |Color| 15 sec|52 sec
2 |color| 27 sec| 1:15 (m:sec)
1 |BW| 6.4 sec| 36 sec
2 |BW| 6.5 sec| 40 secJust for reference I have a late 2008 24'' iMac with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 gigs of ram. I have also updated the NeatDesk software to their latest version as of 10/30/2009 which is 2.1.9
I have taken some screen shots of the grayscale images before they are converted to BW and will try to post them to Amazon. In the screen shots you can see that the initial image looks very nice. If NeatCo fixes this issue the package might be worth a look.Here is the NeatCo response to my grayscale question.
Response (Campbell) - 10/29/2009 08:45 PM
Hi Chris,
There's no way to set to scan in a gray scale at this time. I will put in a feature request to our developers so they can include this capability in future releases.Question Reference #091029-000359
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Product Level 1: NeatDesk for Mac
Date Created: 10/29/2009 08:45 PM
Last Updated: 10/29/2009 08:45 PM
Status: Solved


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You've got information trapped on paper. We've got the key. Because when your information is free, so are you free to store it, organize it, even edit and reuse it. Whatever works for you. NeatDesk for Mac is a desktop scanner and digital filing system that lets you scan and organize receipts, business cards and documents. Neat's patented technology identifies and extracts the important information and automatically organizes it for you. Transform receipts into expense reports, business cards into Address Book contacts, and create searchable PDF files from any document. You can even export information to PDF, Quicken and Excel. NeatDesk for Mac lets you manage the paper at home, at work and on the go.

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8/03/2011

Xerox Travel Scanner 100 Mobile 600 DPI USB Scanner (XTRAVEL-SCAN) Review

Xerox Travel Scanner 100 Mobile 600 DPI USB Scanner (XTRAVEL-SCAN)
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I use a flat bed scanner at the office but, since I have started traveling much more, I wanted a portable solution to scanning receipts while on the road. This one got some good reviews and I liked the form factor. It will scan full 8.5x11 documents (common at hotels) as well as the small register tapes (restaurants, etc...). It's fairly quick, the images are perfect for submitting to my client, and it fits in my computer bag right next to my 17" laptop. The fact that it's powered directly through the USB cable is perfect - no extra AC adapter to carry.
The applications that come with it are great, too. I love the drag-and-drop approach to building my single PDF of all my receipts. My customers do too. Very easy to work with - everybody can read PDFs.
Only reason it doesn't rate a 5-star rating is because it has developed a habit of generating a faint line on scans wider than 2 inches. If I clean it before every use (about a 3-5 minute process since it requires multiple cleaning passes and test scans), it's under control and works like new. However, the line seems to continually recur and annoying. Not bad enough to ruin the scan but, still, it shouldn't be doing it at all. I may contact Xerox to see what they think but too busy just now to do so.
Not a complete replacement for your flatbed scanner if you need high quality photo scanning but excellent for everything else.
Highly recommended.

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7/31/2011

NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac Review

NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac
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I received an advance-release of this product at WWDC08 in June 2008, and I've been playing with it ever since. It is top notch in every regard. The hardware is small and only uses the USB port [no need to find an A/C plug!]. The software is even better, as it grabs data right from the scanned receipt; no need for retyping in most cases!
This is a high quality product, and feels like something Apple has made, as even the packaging is tidy and well organized.
I highly recommend this over the currently offered shareware solutions. The software is really top notch, and the scanner is portable enough to fit in a laptop bag easily.

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Scan and organize receipts and documents in a familiar Max OS X interface.Create expense reports, track spending and create a library of searchable PDF documents. Includes Neat Mobile Scanner and NeatReceipts for Mac Version 2.0. NeatReceipts® for Mac is a mobile scanner and digital filing system that enables you to scan receipts and documents so you can organize, store and secure all your important information.The patented technology identifies and extracts the important information—and automatically organizes it for you. Transform receipts into expense reports and create searchable PDF files from any document. Export information to PDF and Excel®.NeatReceipts for Mac was developed specifically for Mac to look and feel like the applications you use every day.

Scan in receipts to:

Create expense reports
Keep records of vendors, dates, totals, even sales tax
Save digital copies for tax documentation (accepted by the IRS)
Create your own searchable library of information

Scan in documents to:

Create searchable PDFs
Capture text that you can edit
Organize documents into collections

Organize Your Information:

Create separate libraries for multiple businesses, projects or time periods
Organize documents by collections so you can keep relevant items organized together
Create Smart Collections of receipts or documents based on specific criteria
Import PDF copies of receipts and documents stored on your hard drive

Transform paper into information that works. With our unique parsing technology, NeatReceipts® can actually recognize and activate the information you care about—so you can edit, add notes, and more.

Store. Organize. Secure. With NeatReceipts, you get a digital filing cabinet that intelligently organizes and secures all your important information.

One hardware-software solution. Our scanner works seamlessly with one easy-to-install, intuitive software application to manage all your receipts and documents.

It works where you work. At less than one pound, NeatReceipts is perfect for the road, home, or office.

NeatReceipts for Mac was developed from the ground up to look and feel like the applications you use every day. It features drag-and-drop functionality, multiple views, and imports eReceipts.You can even add receipts or documents by "printing" from any application.

What's in the box

NeatReceipts Scanner for Mac
USB cable
Calibration paper
Dry cleaning paper
Alcohol cleaning paper
Instruction manual
Installation CD.


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7/21/2011

Visioneer RoadWarrior Mobile 600 DPI USB Scanner (RW120-WU) Review

Visioneer RoadWarrior Mobile 600 DPI USB Scanner (RW120-WU)
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I looked closely at the NeatReceipts scanner before deciding on this one, but think made the right call.
I have been a Visioneer fan for some time, and I saw one of the Strobes used in my doctor's office and have been interested in one ever since.
The Strobes were overpriced so I never bought one, but broke down and got this one. I figured this was the low end of their line, since the documentation is for the RoadWarrior and the Strobe 100, but when I called Visioneer they told me this one has all the latest hardware in it and buying one of the other models would be a step backward. That made me feel better at least.
I should explain my decision: I used Quicken religiously and have always wanted a way to easily attach receipts to Quicken entries. (Older versions of Quicken had ways to, but they were all iffy and imperfect. Quicken 2007 does allow more direct scanning, although it, too, is pathetic but workable and does work with this scanner). I mention this because it seemed to me that the NeatReceipts scanner's claim to fame is that it reads the receipts and stores them and you can search by them. That's not ultimately what I need. My data is already sorted and I don't need to OCR the receipts--just store them for when I want to see them. Plus, buying this scanner got me PaperPort 11 (I have been using 9, refusing to upgrade due to cost) at no additional cost, which I do use extensively also. A two-for-one deal!
The scanner is actually quite nice. It may not be perfect, or a flatbed, but when I truly look at what I want one for, this is it. I've scanned over 200 receipts with it already and dozens of other documents. It's not as bulky or hard to place on my limited desk space as my old flatbed scanner (Visioneer 9320-USB). Plus, there's no "warm up" time which I always hated.
However, on the flip side, After the unit scans the document quite quickly, it pops up "Converting", which does take way too long for my taste. For a scan that takes say 10 seconds (for an 8.5x11), the conversion process takes 20-30. I THINK that time is dependent on what format you choose to scan to (i.e. Searchable PDFs take longer than PDFs), but I haven't found a format that just "pops" in to Paperport without conversion (I'll note here when you scan from Quicken 2007 into Quicken there is no conversion time--I like that!)
I have also scanned more than a few color photographs with this unit that have come out nicely. I was afraid this was mostly a B&W scanner, but it does well with color as well it seems.
As for difficulties feeding, I can say it is an art. I get more straight than crooked, and Paperport does do a good job straightening them for you, but it is annoying to have to start over. I wouldn't let that "quirk" of this hardware deter you from choosing this unit.
All in all, I am pleased with this purchase and would recommend it to others considering it.

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Visioneer RoadWarrior Sheetfed Mobile Scanner. Scan receipts, business cards, documents and images, 600 dpi, 36-bit color, USB 2.0 USB-powered, with travel bag

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