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The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White) |
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| Film Camera : The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White) and Customer Reviews |
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- 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
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Price: $279.95 |
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| Product Description |
| With the Neat Scan To Office toolbar, you can scan directly into Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. You can edit documents in Word, manage contacts in Outlook, create expense reports in Excel, and add images or text to PowerPoint presentations. Scan to Excel, automatically reads and captures vendor, date, total, sales tax and payment type. Scan to Outlook, automatically capture contact information and image of card. Also information from documents is placed into calendar entries, notes and task. Scan to Word; transform printed documents into Word files that are editable. Scan to PowerPoint; places color images and text into presentation slides. Scan to PDF, creates searchable PDF files from any application. Scanner Specifications - Portable color/grayscale/B&W CIS USB powered, no external power supply needed Maximum Resolution - 600 dpi Unit Dimensions - 10.8 W x 1.6 D x 1.3 H; Weight - 10.6 oz Scan Area - 1'' x 1'' up to 8.5 x 14'' Speed - approximately 3-4 receipts per minute System Requirements - Microsoft Windows XP or Vista (64 bit is not currently supported) Pentium IV 1.3 GHz or later 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended with Windows Vista) 100 MB hard disk space to install CD-ROM drive Available USB port |
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Good for documents but not for photos
2008-12-24
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| About the size of a small rolling pin and weighing just 12.8 ounces in its cloth carrying pouch this scanner fits easily in a computer bag, is powered by the computer's USB port and does a decent job of scanning documents. One very nice feature is its ability to scan directly into a portable document format (PDF) without the need for owning Adobe Acrobat, but I was unimpressed with its OCR (optical character recognition) software capabilities and the quality of its scanned photos. Aside from creating documents with its own software this scanner supports TWAIN scanning through any other software supporting this feature. This scanner is sold as a solution for road warriors who need to scan receipts and other documents while traveling and it works well for that. However it won't replace a good flatbed scanner which will produce better-looking documents and photos, but isn't as portable. |
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Excel support wonderful and awful
2008-12-23
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First things first; this product requires Microsoft Office software to work; version 2003 or above. The scanner software will not install if you do not have Office.
The packaging and product are top-notch quality. Everything is well-organized, and the "Quick Start Guide" actually has enough useful information to get up to speed with this product, instead of a few pictures with arrows.
The scanner itself is lightweight, and sturdy. It has a "PDF" and a "SCAN" button, and an LED on indicator. It comes with a calibration sheet, and a dry and wet cleaning sheet. The wet cleaning sheet is used if you accidently scan something gummy or gunky.
The install program adds a toolbar to Office applications; each one has specific features depending on the application. For Outlook, if you have a "New Contact" form open, the toolbar will expect that you will be scanning in a business card, which worked generally well. It guessed the company name, person name, title fairly well. The OCR software did not handle "Fancy" fonts very well. An image of the business card is placed in the contact information for easy reference.
For Word, it worked pretty well. If you choose Text only, no layout at all, except maybe some spacing, is retained. Choosing Full Document places each block of text in a separate text box, which can make editing the document somewhat tedious. For a directory listing in a table, it imported the text perfectly into a table format.
For Excel, it is feast or famine. Scanning in normal mode, you get famine--just an image pasted into the spreadsheet. In "Neat Sheet" (spreadsheet template) mode, it is wonderful for scanning in receipts, bills, etc. It will scan the receipt, and it has a built-in list of dozens of layouts for common items, such as car rentals, utilities, airlines, grocery stores, and much more. It also handles unrecognized receipts quite well, usually picking out the total, tax, date, store, and payment type such as MasterCard or cash. I had to smooth out a particularly wrinkled receipt, but other than that it was very slick. It then places a new row in the spreadsheet for each receipt, with columns for Company, expense category, etc.
For all applications, my chief annoyance is that you need to make any option settings before you start the scan; such as Image Only, Text Only, or Full Document, and whether to save as an attachment or imbed in the document.
Also, you need to have a Word/Excel/Powerpoint document, either an existing one or a blank one, open, in order to use the "SCAN" button on the scanner.
On the plus side, the software installed easily, and doesn't use much memory; less than 100 MB when active. It takes from 15 to 30 seconds to scan a page, and another 15 to 30 seconds to process/OCR the page.
The OCR works quite well for standard fonts. I scanned in a page containing 4-up page layouts and the OCR was quite accurate even on the tiny text.
The PDF feature works pretty well. The PDF document appears as the scanned image, but you can select the text (including any text in illustrations) and copy/paste the text. The only drawback is there could be typos from OCR errors in the copied text. You can also do searches on the text. You are given the opportunity for PDFs to scan several pages into one document.
The storage pouch is very nice, but doesn't have much room in it for the USB cable.
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Great portable scanner, does the job
2008-12-19
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I installed this scanner on my 6 month old Dell laptop running Windows XP Pro. The installation was quick and easy, and it integrated automatically into Microsoft Office.
The first document I scanned was a two-page contract. In 20 seconds, I had a PDF version on my computer that I could email to the customer. This alone is worth the price of the product: not having to drive back to the office to use the scanner to make electronic copies of signed contracts.
Next I tried some business cards. The scanner quickly delivered full-color scans. I'm looking forward to trying the OCR feature for database import.
The scanner comes with a felt bag to carry it safely in a briefcase. This is a nice touch that makes it an ideal mobile solution. There's only one cable-power is delivered over the USB connection.
This scanner is one more reason that I DON'T have to run back to the office. I'm really happy with it. I gave it five stars because it completely and elegantly solves the problem I had-scanning on the road. And by the way, it looks great. |
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Easy scanning!
2008-12-16
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I bought the original NeatScan a few months back, so I was eager to see what they had changed in the new version. I was very happy with the new design and features.
The first change I noticed was a small ledge in front of the input slot. This makes it *much* easier to get a document inserted correctly. And there's a little icon that shows you which end of the slot to align the document at, also very handy. However, it's not very clear from the icon that the document goes in face down!
The driver installation went very smoothly. I ran the setup program, plugged the NeatScan into my computer, and brought up Microsoft Word. I am using Office 2007. I found the NeatScan buttons on the Add-Ins tab, as the documentation indicated. Except in Outlook, which doesn't have the Office 2007 ribbon yet. In Outlook, NeatScan installs its own toolbar.
I was able to scan documents in both image and text format. NeatScan is very fast, and very quiet too. The OCR (optical character recognition, or "graphics to text") conversion is excellent. I found very few "typos" in the conversions I ran. Image scanning produces excellent quality as well.
In Excel, it took a while to figure out how to scan a document in text. I finally read the help system and figured out how to use their "Neat Sheets", which are Excel templates designed to work with the NeatScan software. The templates are oriented towards business users... expense reports and calendar entries.
I was also able to scan a business card into Outlook Contacts, which was very nice.
I'm very happy with the improvements in the NeatScan hardware and the new integration with Office. The scanner itself is very small, and the package includes a cloth carrying bag. It would fit easily into a briefcase.
This would be an idea product for someone who does a lot of business travel, and needs to keep track of contacts and expense receipts. Because of its small size, the NeatScan would also be excellent for an office desktop where space is at a premium. (However, it's also small enough to get buried under a pile of paperwork!)
The only thing I can think of that would make this product better is integration into Quicken/QuickBooks.
NeatScan is an excellent product that has gotten better. This company is on the right track for smart scanning. |
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NeatScan to Office, Word and PowerPoint
2008-12-12
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| I had no problem whatsoever installing and using the product. Scans documents to jpeg and .pdf perfectly. |
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