NeatReceipts Scanalizer Professional 2.5 price and reviews

I purchased this product because it said it was compatible w/ Quicken, but upon installing it, I found that it is not compatible w/ Quicken versions 2005 and newer. As of Q2005, Quicken does not import QIF files for most accounts. QIF is the format that NeatReceipts exports in. If they got it to be 100% compatible w/ Quicken, I'd deifnitely re-evaluate because it seems like a good product overall.

I have software version 3.1.3_183 which is the latest one before they wanted me to spend more money on a new "improved" version.
Once you get a few hundred receipts in to the system it slows down to the point of being completely useless.
I have no experiences with the newer versions of the scanner and software, but if my experiences are any indication, I would stay away from them as well.

Before getting carried away by this little technological marvel one should consider its application after the novelty wears off. Of course, it's more fun to list one's expenses using this product than entering all the data manually. However, after the first few hundreds inserts the fun ceases and when that happens the errors seem more pronounced and it too becomes laboruous to use. My experience shows that the product is only about 50% successful in reading the data from a credit card or cash receipt. Too often the device reads the date wrong or can't properly read the amount. I found this to be true regardless of the condition of the receipt. Of course, the better condition of the paper input the greater the chance for an accurate read, but not by much. I also didn't have success in analyzing the information after a scan using the "modify document" option. True the "modify" feature usually made the receipt darker and hence more readable, but that additional clarity didn't help the device to produce the correct input into the appropriate columns. I don't regret purchasing the machine since I have accumulated many hundreds if not thousands of receipts the information on which might be useful to me one day, and whatever I can use that will help alliviate the drudgery of inputting the data is a plus. However, I think the manufacturers should be a bit more forthright in touting the devices degree of accuracy and/or produce a device that has a higher degree of accuracy and reliability than the most current issue, which I beleive is NeatReceipts Professional v. 2.5.6.

One of the great things about NeatReceipts is it eliminates the hassle of dealing with large amounts of paper receipts. With NeatReceipts I can scan an image of receipt and have the program extract the pertinent information from the receipts I need for my expense reports. It's as simple as that.

My Girlfriend bought me this for Christmas in hope of getting rid of all my reciepts.
At first I thought it seemed like a logical solution. As i began to scan in reciepts I ran into these issues.
1.) Software memory hungry. Exteremly Slow
2.) OCR Software sub-par. Does not recognize the text well.
3.) Picture editing after scanning sub-par
4.) "CANNOT SAVE TO SERVER DIRECTLY" I was disappointed that i needed to have SQL installed locally when I have an SQL server. I know it can backup but i don't want the database on my PC. Not Enterprise friendly.
5.) Application freezes, lost work more then a few times. Waisted a ton of time. How is there no crash recovery. I though they said there was no reason to have a save button since its a DB. Someone dropped the ball in the programming. It should of saved up until the crash.

Overall i give only a plus to the Scanner itself. Other than that I think that its back to the drawing board with the software. And Back to my boxes goes my receipts.

I've been using this scanner for a few months. I am in the construction business and use it for tracking expenses for each project I am working on. When I complete a project, I add a line in the software for labor and then print a report that becomes my bill. My clients get an invoice that includes great looking scans of each receipt plus detailed information on labor costs.

The scanner is very durable and the software is intuitive. It keeps me from losing receipts and forgetting to bill customers

Hi -

My name is Rafi Spero and I am the founder of NeatReceipts. I wanted to take a moment to address some of the issues raised in this forum.

1. We take customer support very seriously at NeatReceipts. We provide free technical support (phone or email), pay for shipping on returns and provide free updates and upgrades. We have always honored our 30 day money back guarantee.

2. I am not familiar with the problem of slick receipts. We switched scanners back in February which utilizes a different tracking system that pulls in documents when you scan. I personally tested the mechanism and can assure you that it works very well.

3. Our price on our website is 229.95. You can purchase at a number of different web store fronts for 199.95 including: TigerDirect, CDW, TechDepot, Softmart, MobilePlanet, eCost, PC Mall and others.

4. Our software file is proprietary yet we work quite well with Quicken, Quickbooks, MS Money, PDF, Excel, Word, HTML and CSV. We currently support these applications for 2004. When we release our 2005 version (which all current users get a free upgrade to) we will support all applications listed above for 2005.

Again, we take our customers seriously and value their input and any issues they encounter. Feel free to email me directly at rspero@neatreceipts.com

Sincerely,
Rafi Spero

Sounds good, but be weary. The price is extravagant and it should perform well for what you are expected to pay.

Hardware: Full page sheets feed through moderately well. But, slick receipts, which are what the product was intended for, slide around and scan very poorly.

Software: OK if you are willing to work exclusively within their software. But, the image format is proprietary. The export function is cumbersome. Interfacing to other software packages is not as automated as it should be and they do not even support Quicken 2005.

Support: Be very cautious. They promise a money back gaurantee. I put them to the test and found they failed. The did not honor the gaurantee and left me to pay for the return and dispute the charge on the credit card.

Mediocre software, poor hardware, non-trustworthy customer support.

NeatReceipts has worked very well for me. I've found it easy to use and quite efficient. It cuts off a lot of time in doing expense reports since it automatically places the information it scans from my receipts into my reports - no more tedious data entry. The 'mail to' email feature even allows me to send the reports directly from the software to my boss. I certainly recommend it.