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NeatDesk 698 Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System for Mac (White) | 
| Brand: NeatDesk
Category: CE
List Price: $449.95
Buy New: $399.95
as of 3/18/2010 17:59 CDT details
You Save: $50.00 (11%)
New (3) Used (1) from $331.99
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  13 reviews
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 8.9 x 8.9
MPN: 698
Model: 698
UPC: 899061000698
EAN: 0899061000698
ASIN: B0026IBMK6
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Transform paper into information that works | | • | Automatically extracts key information from scanned receipts; can export to Quicken, Excel, and pdf | | • | Scans are IRS-accepted digital copies, making tax preparation a snap | | • | Scan up to 10 receipts, 10 business cards and 10 documents at once or a single, 50 page document | | • | Developed for OS X to look and feel like the applications you use every day |
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Product Description
NeatDesk for Mac is a desktop scanner and digital filing system that lets you scan and organize receipts, business cards and documents. Neats patented technology identifies and extracts the important information-and automatically organizes it for you. Transform receipts into expense reports, business cards into Address Book contacts, and create searchable PDF files from any document. You can even export information to PDF, Quicken and Excel. NeatDesk for Mac lets you manage the paper at home, at work and on the go.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 High Expectations Lead to Big Letdown February 12, 2010
Richard Bird (New York, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had been using a Fujitsu ScanSnap 510 for more than a year. The Neat scanner got my attention for its design aesthetic (I am a product designer) and its enhanced software. So, when I passed on my S510M to my secretary to begin archiving corporate files, I jumped.
I must tell you, I've never been more astoundingly disappointed. There is a huge gap between the promise and presentation of this product versus its usability and value.
No matter what the settings, scans are excruciatingly slow, even when color and OCR are disabled (BW image only settings).
The software application that comes with the scanner is really only of value if you OCR every single document you scan. If you do so, the wait time is even more astounding. Seems like minutes for *every single page.* Multiple page document? Forget about it.
Paper feed is abysmal. Even a single, plain letter sheet would wobble and distort during the scan process. For some reason, there is an excessive gap in width on the feed guides and it seems like the feed rollers are in the center only, which adds to instability in the document feeder.
Now, I miss my S510M, which was lightning fast and put the Neat scanner to shame on all counts above.
Bottom line: Great looks, Great promise, Great disappointment. I can't find anything good to say about this. I gave it 45 days of daily use, trying to justify my purchase. No good.
 Neatdesk February 7, 2010
Darrell A. Cooper
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Works good. The software is a little awkward but once you get the hang of it you can do what is needed. They could redesign the software to make it more user friendly. Overall I like this product.
Caused More Work, Not Less January 14, 2010
Athelas (Denver, CO)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I should have trusted the poor reviews the Scanner had already gotten. But the windows version got pretty good reviews so I thought I'd give it a try.
The scanner performed well enough on easy text documents. But if the document surface was at all shiny (Like the Amazon.com receipts) scan quality was poor. The scan speed was ok, but since it did OCR on every document it seemed to take forever before I could use the scanned image.
The software seems poorly written and perhaps a Version 1.0 or something similar. It did not seem well thought out nor at all intuitive. It ended up causing more work per document than filing paper docs. (Perhaps the Windows software is better.)
I regretfully returned the Item to Amazon.
Terrible Hardware, and Software January 12, 2010
Kathleen E. Leavitt (Las Vegas, Nevada)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
When i opened up this product it looked really nice and was looking forward to digitizing lots of my loose papers...upon beginning scanning though, i noticed small white lines appearing on the documents, and the software would TAKE FOREVER in an attempt to analyze and convert the documents to PDF...My HP scanner does this almost instantaneously. What was the worst part about this is the software... They say it was written for Mac OS X but the software not only crashes all the time, but causes the ENTIRE computer to freeze up too...Many many paper jams, poor layout and organization for filing "documents" and the BIG ONE.... many of the texts on my documents are dark grey and light grey- which this scanner and software simply and completely CUT OUT and make disappear...totally useless..... My HP all in one printer/scanner provides far better quality with gray scale, color, and B/W, is 10x faster in software, and the file sizes are significantly smaller while producing a crisper image... DO NOT BUY, YOU WILL SEND IT BACK AND BE SORRY FOR ALL YOUR WASTED TIME!!! (I don't know if the windows PC edition is much better, but my experience with this product on a brand new iMac was Frustrating beyond all belief....
Nice scanner, truly horrible software... January 7, 2010
James Hayes (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really do like the scanner hardware (made by the Plustek company in China), but the bundled software is horrible.
The software stores all your documents in a private database, inaccessible to you. You can set up a duplicate folder hierarchy for yourself and force NeatWorks to sync to it as well (doubling your storage requirements), but even then the filenames it uses are GUIDs (lots of seemingly random letters and numbers) with no clue to the contents inside.
The software crashes constantly. I'm not being hyperbolic here. It really does. My crash log folder contains 23 crashes from today's scanning, almost all of them are from programming errors within the NeatWorks software. One of them (from the scanner "helper" program that runs silently in the background) took down my system completely. Given the stability of Mac OS X these days, you have to try *really* hard to get it to do that!
So, here's what you can expect: First NeatWorks crashes, then it crashes trying to recover from the previous crash, then it rebuilds its database and then it stays up for a few more minutes processing any documents in its backlog until it crashes again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I've resigned myself to scanning to PDF using the built-in Mac OS X image capture program and filing the documents manually outside of the NeatWorks program, and OCRing them using Acrobat PRO. A less lazy person could set up an AppleScript drop-folder that does this automatically.
I'm keeping it because it's the best and cheapest duplexing scanner I've ever used. Just throw away the software.
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