NeatReceipts lets you export data to Excel or QuickBooks, but it also lets you assign each receipt to a certain tax deductible category. This is one of the features that we actually didn’t use that much-but only because there was a slight learning curve. It’s sort of like the iTunes of documents, receipts and bills. NeatReceipts helps you stay organized by making it easy to search and reference scanned materials. That’s the main thing you’re paying for, and for anyone who struggles with dead-tree filing systems, it’s totally worth it. It also parses out information from business cards and documents and puts it into searchable PDF form. The fact that NeatReceipts can recognize data is only half of the equation. And that’s truly rare and valuable among scanners. This takes NeatReceipts beyond the level of a mere scanner, and makes into a veritable transcriber. NeatReceipts can even pick out some of the faintest, tiniest text on the most crumpled of receipts. Based on the scanners we’ve seen, very few all-in-one scanners come close to NeatReceipts’ advanced OCR capabilities. OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, is the software that allows the scanner to not only scan documents, but accurately recognize words and letters. The real star of the show is NeatReceipts impressive OCR software. Instead, the NeatReceipts system is optimized for organizing bills, tax documents, mail and, of course, receipts.īut here’s the big question: does what NeatReceipts have to offer worth paying $199 on top of what you’ve already invested towards a printer and/or scanner? This review will take a look at NeatReciepts top features and help you decide. While it is, in essence, a scanner paired with proprietary software, this isn’t an all-in-one piece of hardware for your computer that you’d regularly use for scanning photos, copying pages from books and other typical tasks you’d see in a flatbed scanner. The NeatReceipts system is more than a scanner in many ways, and less than a scanner in other ways.

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