I own a regular document scanner of good quality. Is there a benefit in purchasing a scanner designed with an option to scan receipts?
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I have an HP Photosmart 3210xi All-in-one and it handles scanning all of the documents I use with Home Inventory Pro. I also use Nuance PDF COnverter Professional as a software interface to scan in my inventory documents. I didn't see a need to get a separate scanner just to handle receipts. Hope this helps.
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thats why i bought it. you can do it. it is not as fast as some other scanners. took me a while to figure out how to make a multiple page pdf.the quality of the scan is good. it is not as quick as it could be. also you have to perform all operations through the computer. it is not wireless. i would look for a scanner that has a single button to scan and s wireless. my next scanner will have that.
1969398
This comes with scanning software. It can also convert receipts and scanned documents to text for editing.Very user friendly as well.
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I have both, and the ScanSnap gets my vote. The Neat Receipts idea is great, but the software didn't deliver. It was good at character recognition, but after scanning only 100 documents/receipts or so, it started loading extremely slowly, and got slower and slower each time I scanned a new receipt. It was basically useless, unless you want to wait 10-15 minutes for it to load, and the same amount of time to scan one receipt. I don't know about you, but my paper backlog amounts to a lot more than 100 receipts. I went out and purchased the ScanSnap. There's no character recognition, but if you just want to digitize your documents and receipts, the ScanSnap is your product. Compared to the Neat Receipts scanner (when first purchased) it is as fast (or faster) with single or double sided scanning. It automatically detects blank pages, and it has never once jammed. It creates a pdf wherever you want it saved, and I can easily email the document (which I often do, instead of faxing). ScanSnap is still as fast as the day I opened the box. It gets my vote hands down. Maybe someday they'll add character recognition to the included software.
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The software that comes with this scanner isn't that sophisticated--I'd be shocked if it could do that. I often scan multiple receipts at the same time, and at no time does it treat them as separate entities, it just crops the entire main image. If you think about it, the scanner would have to know whether or not you were scanning a photo in order to determine if there were multiple photos present, since any standard document has large gaps of white that could fool the scanner into thinking it was multiple images. Since that's a software function anyhow, you can do that in most any other image handling software package like ACDSee, Photoshop, etc. The software that comes with this scanner isn't that sophisticated--I'd be shocked if it could do that. I often scan multiple receipts at the same time, and at no time does it treat them as separate entities, it just crops the entire main image. If you think about it, the scanner would have to know whether or not you were scanning a photo in order to determine if there were multiple photos present, since any standard document has large gaps of white that could fool the scanner into thinking it was multiple images. Since that's a software function anyhow, you can do that in most any other... » Read More The software that comes with this scanner isn't that sophisticated--I'd be shocked if it could do that. I often scan multiple receipts at the same time, and at no time does it treat them as separate entities, it just crops the entire main image. If you think about it, the scanner would have to know whether or not you were scanning a photo in order to determine if there were multiple photos present, since any standard document has large gaps of white that could fool the scanner into thinking it was multiple images. Since that's a software function anyhow, you can do that in most any other image handling software package like ACDSee, Photoshop, etc. « Show Less
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The Neat Scanner does a great job of first scanning receipts, papers, even business cards then putting them into folders that can be labeled and called up whenever needed. I have been using the scanner to scan PDFs of oil leases and mineral deeds that were made back in the 1940's and 50's. The time the scanner saves me is super. The cost of the scanner is made up in the the quickness it takes to scan the material. I also think it is a cool design and fits anyway as it is not so big.
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Yes, Have your pre-purchased product logging software open, then plug in your scanner and it will automatically sync to the software program. Then scan item, it will then appear in your logging software. Hope this helps.
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No - if you haven't bought it don't! I bought one several years ago - it worked for about a month. It was glitchy and cumbersome to use. Brother, who makesthe scanner had little/no support.
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You just slide the scanner across the receipt. I had no problems, but you will need to buy a memory card.
196334
Yes! I have been happy with this scanner. Has a reasonable price tag. Good luck!
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I've scanned every type of document with this scanner and it performed top notch. I believe there's a micro switch in the feeder area to detect and pull documents through, so it really depends on how the user aligns each document when scanning. I haven't had a problem with receipts being scanned straight.
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Yes, you can scan using a regular SD card, and just insert the card into your computer. The scanned documents should be there.
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You get both an image of the receipt and Neat does a fairly decent job of catching the name of the vendor, sales tax and amount, although in some cases, it gets confused, especially if there is the amount of the change given back. You can always look at the image of the receipt and make changes. You also can print out at some later date a copy of the scan. Hope that helps.
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Yes, but maybe not the way you think. You set up a template of fields that are important to you and after you scan them . . . you enter the data into that field. I tried the NEAT scanner which was very expensive, and it really didn't work the way they said on TV. You had to type stuff into that as well, so I find that to be able to find documents it is ideal. If you just want to scan business cards and create a database, I would look for another product.
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Yes it does. Works quickly with receipts once you have software figured out.
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I am not aware of this capability. It's VERY easy, however, to set up a folder for each vendor and file the receipts within. I have had this scanner for over 3 months and literally use it on a daily basis and could not be more pleased with its performance and features.
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the scanner itself is not the issue, but rather you must have some knowledge of scanning software. Any scanning software that you like can be used with this. You can scan from photo software, video software etc. It has nothing to do with this particlular scanner. With any scanner that you buy, you will have to learn how to use scanning software.