Neat Scanner

[speakerman1]

Dudes I'm so bad at paper work it isn't funny. Do these work? Are they worth the money. Has anyone used them?

Larry

 

[orange]

Scanners in general? I don't use them a lot but if you noticed the J-card thread at TH then yeah, they are pretty useful. Useful for taking documents and storing them, converting the text in them to store in other files (OCR-optical character recognition), using the images in programs like Photoshop or Corel Draw...

OCR has been around for years. I remember when it became popular, a company called Caere? had the software I always heard about as I seem to recall. Those were the mid-late nineties. Now it's pretty much standard.

 

[Skywavebe]

Hi Larry,
Paper scanners are great items to have. I have used several flat bed scanners both HP and Epson and they did outstanding jobs all the years I used them. You have to be aware of how to operate them and what settings to use for what purpose. I have sent technical documents from books I have in scanning them and providing them in Pdf format. This allows a pretty detailed scan to be sent to a person in a minimal sized format. The flatbed types are going to be a big project if you have a lot of documents though. If you have loose papers to scan there are auto feeders but they are more expensive and after a while they will jam more than they are worth due to the paper dust they gather up. You can't put bound books through them anyway.
The system does not allow Pdf files- too bad

 

[speakerman1]

Hi
I have a scanner with paper feed. The Neat scanner will put receipts and papers in the right file. The software works with Quicken. So instead of me typing it all in and sorting through it the software puts it in the file I want when I scan it.

Larry

 

[orange]

Oh. It's a brand, not an adverb!