NEAT SCANNER FOR MAC REVIEWS ANDROID
NEAT SCANNER FOR MAC REVIEWS SOFTWARE

While it has plenty of sophisticated organizational and reportage options, it lacks an overall organizational or operational logic.

NEAT SCANNER FOR MAC REVIEWS SOFTWARE

We did not find the software as intuitive as we'd like. NeatConnect comes with a CD containing the Windows and Mac Neat desktop software, but we recommend downloading the software from the Neat website to get the most up-to-date version.

NEAT SCANNER FOR MAC REVIEWS ANDROID

With Neat's Android or iOS apps, you can use your smartphone's camera to scan documents on the go or access all the records you've already uploaded into your Neat Cloud account. We recommend scanning photos one at a time to make sure they scan straight. But the end-to-end process is far faster than using a flatbed scanner and separate PC software. Graphic scans take a bit longer, around 5 to 7 seconds each, depending on size and resolution. NeatConnect can scan documents or photos as PDFs, TIFFs, JPEGs, BMPs, GIFs or PNGs, at 150, 200, 300 or 600 dpi.

You can scan directly to (or after saving the scan to the NeatConnect's 'Outbox') OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Evernote and Google Drive. It took about 10 seconds for 15 business cards to appear in all our account locations online, in the desktop software, and the Neat mobile iOS and Android apps. When you're satisfied with your scans, click Send and the scanned documents are uploaded to your Neat Cloud account. In our testing, about 5 percent of the documents we tried to scan became jammed, and swiping through the scanned documents on the touch screen wasn't as sensitive or smooth as we've grown used to on a modern smartphone. You'll want to rotate documents before you transmit the results to the Neat 5 software, which can't rotate scans.

Once your stack is scanned, you can view the results on the touch screen, flipping or rotating individual files, and deleting poor or doubled-up scans (multiple documents accidently pulled through simultaneously). We wish a plastic sleeve had been included to handle odd-shaped or too-thin documents. But the scanner was easy to open, and it quickly clears jams.

NeatConnect has trouble scanning super thick, oddly shaped or oddly sized cards, such as super-slim New York City taxi receipts. (Neat says the Connect will scan 25 full-sized documents a minute.) Once placed in their appropriate slots, documents are sucked through the scanner to the pullout tray at around one second each, a rate we found surprisingly fast.

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