Comments on: Review: NeatDesk and NeatWorks for Mac

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:24:50 +0000

I know a cat with a mustache similar to that, but they named him Groucho.

How does one go about categorizing Groucho, Charlie, and Hitler mustaches?

And oh…about the scanner… questions:

1) How IS the speed of the Neatscan compared to ScanSnap?
2) Does Neatscan duplex?
3) How well does Neatscan work for magazine articles? Newspaper articles?
4) Will either one of these scanners allow me to convert my hundreds of photographs to jpegs? If not, do you have a link to something that does the job well? Or is it best to use a service?

I LOVE this site!! Even if I’m not completely uncluttered yet (there is MORE than a week to my uncluttering needs, because I do not have enough space for “a place for everything and everything in its place”), this is a wonderfully inspirational site and you are a gift from grammar heaven!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:13:39 +0000

Charlie is adorable!

Is there comparable software for a PC? A couple people mentioned Windows in their comments, but I couldn’t tell if they were talking about a version of this software or something else.

By: Orlando

Orlando — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:31:55 +0000

The NeatWorks software has long been superior to ScanSnap’s – the question is how this NeatDesk’s speed compares to the Fujitsu which has seemingly always been faster.

Can you notice a difference in speed?

By: Katie Alender

Katie Alender — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:08:18 +0000

I recently pestered my husband into getting me a ScanSnap for my birthday (I’d been working on him for a year!) and I loooooooooove it so passionately. In addition to how compact and easy to use it is, I love that it will sheetfeed photos and scan them directly into iPhoto as an event.

I am not going to agonize that there is a new and different option out there right now… I’m just not. LOL.

By: Steve-O

Steve-O — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:32:52 +0000

well… this is actually about that cat. Jackson Girl finds Charlie’s mustache very handsome. But she seems to love every male cat she sees…

I wonder if it’s some sort of disguise? Part of his bad-boy mystique?

By: josephine

josephine — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:54:43 +0000

Looks like Costco has a coupon for it on the coupon book that begins 6/15/09, but the website says it’s sold out!!!!

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:53:01 +0000

@suzanne — We submitted Charlie’s picture years ago and were rejected. They told us that she had a Charlie Chaplin mustache (her namesake), not a Hitler mustache. Picky, picky, picky

By: suzanne

suzanne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:39:21 +0000

Thanks for the review. Intriguing product/software. I’ll work on rationalizing the expense. But until then, you really need to submit that picture of your cat to:

http://www.catsthatlooklikehit.....igmiaow.pl

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By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:36:57 +0000

Thanks for the review. I’m still learning about the uses of a scanner and software to go paperless, and this article provided me with lots of information to consider.

I agree with Maria. I appreciate a blog written for grown-up people. You use vocabulary, grammar and punctuation in a way that makes your writing very easy to read. Thank you.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:27:43 +0000

Excellent review, but that’s not why I’m commenting. I’m commenting because your grammar is impeccable. Very few people still use the subjunctive case correctly, writing “I wish it was” rather than the correct “I wish it were.”

Thank you.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:14:23 +0000

Thank you so much for this review! I coveted Neat Receipts – but once I got it (as a gift) I then wanted the ScanSnap. I’ve been trying to find the best way to integrate the two – and wasn’t sure if I was being foolish to use the Neat Receipts software with the ScanSnap (I’ve still never opened or tried the ScanSnap software – and I was actually hoping to sell a bit of it as I don’t need the pricey adobe that came with it). I’m going to reread through these posts and experiment a bit this weekend – but I’d like to hear more about your computer filing system for all of your digital paper and how that integrates with the NeatWorks software. Thank you!

By: timgray

timgray — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:58:32 +0000

I have their portable one for Windows. Contacting them they said it was NOT mac compatible. I checked online and discovered that NEAT products are simply relabeled scanners from Genius. They had OSX drivers. I installed them, and simply scan my receipts to pdf or JPG files. the portable version is great because it easily fit’s in a drawer when not used unlike this monster.

My biggest gripe about NEAT products is their “special” software that does not simply scan to a format in a folder I can easily deal with later on.
Yes you can export them, but I dont want to take the extra steps.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:32:12 +0000

@aearle — Give the software you already have a whirl and see if it meets your needs. If it does, stay with it. For me, the ScanSnap software didn’t meet all of my needs, and DevonThink Pro was a bit overkill. NeatWorks falls in the “just right” for my needs category.

By: aearle

aearle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:21:16 +0000

I’ve just purchased a scansnap S1500M, and thus its own software.

Newbie questions:
Is NeatWorks sufficiently better to be worth investing in?

Practically speaking, can one use one or the other set of software depending on the situation, or is it one or the other overall?

Is the ScanSoft software capable of making decent reports as described in the article?

thanks for comments.

AEarle

By: Randall Stross

Randall Stross — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:36:03 +0000

Charlie is a good looking cat Neatworks sounds very good, thanks.

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By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:23:55 +0000

I was just looking on their website yesterday, after I found lots of our home renovation receipts blacked out from heat exposure to thermal paper. Ahhh!

I was hoping they had PC software. I like my current scanner, and would prefer not to buy another piece of plastic. Anyone know of just software that would do the same?

By: gooseling

gooseling — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:19:08 +0000

your cat has a kickass mustache.