Travel Technology - Anyone tried NeatReceipts?

I was just at the Consumer Electronic Show and saw a system called NeatReceipts. It's software and a scanner for ease of entry of travel & business receipts. Looks very interesting.

http://www.neatreceipts.com/

I'm wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think?

Thanks
Michael
http://www.biztrip.com

I travel almost 50% of the time and it looks to me like just one more thing to carry with minimal benefit over stuffing them in a envelope. Unless it is hideously expensive, I cannot imagine that the scanner will be able to recognize many receipts that are poorly printed. Think of Cardscan, except in this case about 1/2 of your business cards are printed very lightly.

$249 for the software and scanner bundle. The scanner is powered by the USB port.

Specs of the scanner:

Image Sensor: Linear, Color, CMOS
Optical Resolution: 600 x 1200dpi
Powered 0.2W Standby; 0.2W during scanning
Scan Speed: 6 receipts per minute (if scanned horizontally) and 3 full size documents per minute
Scanner Dimensions: 11 width x 1.5 Depth x 1.5 Height
Scanner Weight: 340g (12 oz)

Looks interesting. Time to do more research.

Figured I'd bump this to see if anyone has tried this now that it has been out awhile. I understand they recently added a business card scanning feature.

So, anyone tried this?

This time I figured I'd bump this because I bought one a couple of months ago and I love it. It's made processing receipts and developing my expense invoices a snap; takes a fraction of the time it used to.

Even though I have a "regular" scanner, it's the software on this that is the standout. Automatically enters the data from about 80% of my receipts and allows easy export into a number of different formats. The only downside was you have to create receipts to scan for those expenses for which I don't have receipts, like tips and mileage. Once I set up a standard receipt format for those itmes, it's a snap to edit and print those and then scan into the latest report.

Amazon had it for about 20% off the MSRP and that's where I bought mine.

The new business card feature on this isn't quite as good; if a card has fancy fonts it will misread the smaller type. I'd say the biz card feature's accuracy is around 75%.

I was quite interested in one of these too.

My question is can you also just use it as a portable scanner with a laptop? Assuming it only has USB and no bluetooth/ other connections.

Can anyone report on the accuracy of cardscan units?

This time I figured I'd bump this because I bought one a couple of months ago and I love it.

What kind of accuracy are you getting on the initial scans? I got one to test out for work, and the scans themselves were good, but I found myself entering a lot of data manually for most receipts. Also, I thought it this would be really useful to digitize all my receipts for future retrieval, but did not find a way to store them/search for them in any other way then via the expense reports they were attached to (i.e. I have to remember what receipts are in which report). Have there been any software upgrades that addressed this?

Cardscan -- I have had great success with it. The accuracy went way up with the last release (new scanner plus CardScan 7). I would say about 80% on first scan with minor corrections for most others. Probably less than 3-5% that get OCR's really funky or cannot be read. I sync it with MS Outlook Business Contact Manager - that works great too.

This time I figured I'd bump this because I bought one a couple of months ago and I love it.

What kind of accuracy are you getting on the initial scans? I got one to test out for work, and the scans themselves were good, but I found myself entering a lot of data manually for most receipts. Also, I thought it this would be really useful to digitize all my receipts for future retrieval, but did not find a way to store them/search for them in any other way then via the expense reports they were attached to (i.e. I have to remember what receipts are in which report). Have there been any software upgrades that addressed this?

I was surprised at the accuracy of the initial scans. Obviously have to manually enter some data on hand-written receipts such as taxis and occasionally it picks up a total incorrectly, but i have found it very easy to catch and correct. It has been very accurate on primary vendors (airlines, hotels, etc.), dates and totals.

Even with the need to enter some data manually on occasion, it still is much faster than scanning receipts on my flatbed scanner and then separately entering the data into a report. What i really like is that once you have the receipts for an expense report entered, you can then export to a variety of file types (I use excel) and it enters the data from your receipts into an expense report template (and attaches copies of the scanned receipts.) All I have to do at that point is email the report or print out and snail mail it.

The software allows you to do a date range search for receipts.

I was just at the Consumer Electronic Show and saw a system called NeatReceipts. It's software and a scanner for ease of entry of travel & business receipts. Looks very interesting.

http://www.neatreceipts.com/

I'm wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think?

Thanks
Michael
http://www.biztrip.com

I have this and love it. Don't carry it with me, but I guess I could. It's very portable and even comes with a travel case. However, I use it in the office and it really helps keep business finances in order for me. I have had no problems with the scanner so far, even with business cards. The export features are also terrific. You can export to so many formats. I export to pdf to save them with other client material in each client's (computer) folder, and then into Money Biz edition as well. Great hardware / software!

NEATRECEIPTS:
Figured I'd bump this since some more time has passed since it was discussed.

How does it classify receipts? And exports them into what? I've read Xcel but what good does just exporting to an Excel worksheet do?

Any info from actual users would be appreciated.

Thanks,

I don't have that one but I do have the Visioneer XP300. $339 at Amazon and it will scan both sides at the same time up to 600 dpi color all in a very small case with a travel case.

Works well for me and I carry it in my computer bag. No need for a power brick as it will as power itself from the USB cable.

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