The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White) (B001CQDOR2)

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The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White)

Binding: Electronics

$249.90

Features:

Installs a Scan button in all your MS Office applications
Scans directly to Office applications
Mobile, easy to carry scanner goes everywhere
Boost productivity and cut down on re-typing, cutting and pasting

The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White)

Editorial Review:

manage documents, exports data, scan to PDF, Smart Sorting, converts to editable text

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Pretty Disappointing - cute but a little deceiving:

I was pretty happy with it at first. But I wanted to have you beware that although the progressing bar in the video seems to show that it scans pretty quickly. It's not true. It's not really a bar that shows progress. It just keep going down and up, but doesn't tell you how many % is done. You have to wait for it to scan and wait for it to convert. So that's kinda deceiving and annoying.
Then what's even more annoying is that the scanned page keep showing two lines vertically down the page. I've tried... more info

Intelligent scanning and OCR simply doesn't work:

I entered 100 receipts and it scanned 5 correctly. It's completely incompatible with Quickbooks. The stated features are grossely overstated. As far as I am concerned, I wasted $300 thinking it was actually doing what it says it does. The recognition is so unreliable it's essentially useless and all ought to be entered by hand instead. It's hard to customize too.

Neat gets it:

This new NeatScan to Office product contains the same hardware you will find in the NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System or the NeatReceipts Mobile Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac, but instead of the full version of software, it comes with plugins for the Windows version of Microsoft Office.
The box contains the scanner itself, a USB to mini USB cable and a cardboard folder holding calibration paper, cleaning paper, a single use wet cleaning pad, a soft carry pouch and the... more info

A handy way to scan in documents:

This product's set up was pretty easy. They included useful instructions. It did need to be calibrated a second time before it would work and scan adequately, but that may have been human error.
We used it to scan a paper copy of a word processing document. It did pretty well, a little better than average. It translated the document well into digial format, except for the parts that had been written on (with which you would expect to have less than optimal results) and where it would just insert extra... more info

Accessories:

AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female Extension Cable (9.8 Feet / 3.0 Meters) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]

Binding: Electronics

$8.15

Features:

Ships in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging
One 9.8-foot-long (3.0 meters) USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female high-speed extension cable
Extends your USB connection to your computer by 9.8 feet; for use with printers, cameras, mice, keyboards and other USB computer peripherals
Constructed with corrosion-resistant, gold-plated connectors for optimal signal clarity and shielding to minimize interference