Tame Your Paper Monster: The Neat Company creates integrated software and scanning solutions that help you tame your paper monster. In addition, because the hardware is only the first half of the equation, as soon as you finish scanning the company’s software steps in and finishes the process. In fact, it even handles business cards with aplomb. That means there’s no manual adjustment needed as you go from large full sheets of paper to small receipt. It comes with a plastic insert that offers three different paper “chutes” all at the same time. That’s where Neat’s hardware has a bit of an advantage. But it was not specifically designed to work with receipts. (Since the two are not OS agnostic.) It works quite well and has adjustable paper sheets so that you can scan anything up from 8.5 x 11 paper two receipts.

When I made the move to Mac I sold that scanner and immediately bought the Mac equivalent.

I started with a scanner from Fujitsu that was designed to work with Windows. I have used a high-speed scanner for the last few years. Yes, the desktop scanner is a bit on the pricey side but for the $399 entrance fee you get an excellent scanner and some similarly great software. I have been using the company’s NeatDesk scanner and software combination to get myself a bit more organized and I have become a fan. The result is a winning combination that can help even the most disorganized person (like me!) begin moving toward some semblance of organization. The same holds true for Neat’s organizational tools since they created both the receipt scanner AND the software that works with it. The result? Well just take a look at Apple’s numbers since the iPhone was first released. But when you put the two together when the hardware is specifically designed to work with the software and the software is specifically designed to work with the hardware… now THAT is a combination worth speaking about. One of the keys to Apple’s remarkable success with their iOS devices is the fact that they control both the hardware and the software side of things.

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