I have one, I use it on my iMac, Macbook pro and Windoze 7 systems.

The PC and Mac software is different, not compatible so you can not interchange between them, and you need to pay separately for each.

The mac software is much faster in my opinion.

I am a consultant, and travel a LOT. I use it daily on my Mac and could not live without it. It saves me HOURS each week in expense reports. I use it at home to keep my generic receipts and it has saved me countless times. In seconds I can load the software do a quick search and find the exact purchase date of my TV, PS3, computer... I can then print out the pdf as needed, it is also just sitting there in pdf format so I can instantly email to a support person.

I know the mac version lets me also copy the files as they are scanned into a separate directory to be saved, instant backup for taxes.

If you install the demo, or unlicensed copy on a mac it will also install the twain drivers. But in my opinion it is an OK portable scanner it is the software that makes it an exceptional deal.

The software nor hardware perfect. On many receipts you have to give a little pressure on the receipt so it feeds correctly, and the software has quite a few 'quirks' but all in all it is a great timesaver, and again I prefer the mac version.

I used to loose a lot of receipts in my files, as well as have many fade away, and finding anything in a standard file drawer is next to impossible. I stack up my home receipts and scan them in weekly, do a little correction on the OCR (which gets better with use and does better recognition with more data) and I am done.

I say get it.

(and yes it does 8.5" x 11")

amez5686 wrote:Does anyone know if this can scan a regular size piece of paper? Like 8.5" x 11"? That's the only way i would buy it.

Absolutely yes - it will handle up to a 30" feed.

calif2tenn wrote:will it work with a Mac?

As in "Big"???

...no mine works with one dimentional, flat pieces of paper, not juicy fast food hamburgers. But, yours might, you never know. ;-)

DogMom23 wrote:As in "Big"???

...no mine works with one dimentional, flat pieces of paper, not juicy fast food hamburgers. But, yours might, you never know. ;-)

Not even 2 dimensions? Pass!

Just got a special invite from Neat TODAY making a special offer...portable scanner and software sans Abby for $50 OFF...the deal is $149.99! WOOT WOOT for the true WOOT!

You just have to get the driver for using in other Mac software. I have had mine for 2 years and works well with Mac.

big77 wrote:The scanner itself is identical in the PC or Mac version. Just the software if different. Unfortunately, the scanner doesn't seem to work with any other mac software (it's not twain compliant and seems to have custom drivers). So while technically the hardware is mac compatible unless you have the software to go with it, it's a mac paperweight. And not a very heavy one at that.

I just received an email from Neat. They are offering a promotion - selling this scanner, with a free travel case but without PDF Transformer, for the special, limited-time price of $149.95, $50 off the normal price. Plus $9.55 shipping for where I live.

If you want to get in on this special offer - for double the price of this Woot - you'll need to place your order within the next week.

Would the software work with a Canon flatbed scanner too? I almost bought a scanner during the Woot Off, but didn't like the inability to search. This appears to be better software, but the reviews here are so-so.

If the software would work with another scanner, I might just pick one up though.

amez5686 wrote:Does anyone know if this can scan a regular size piece of paper? Like 8.5" x 11"? That's the only way i would buy it.

yep, scans to .pdf if you like...

Bought the 2.0 Version of the software for Mac on E-Bay for $29. Free upgrade to 3.0, so $90 software for $29, great deal.

@MWPOllard
I just received that e-mail too, umh, I'll pass.

hail2skins wrote:Would the software work with a Canon flatbed scanner too? I almost bought a scanner during the Woot Off, but didn't like the inability to search. This appears to be better software, but the reviews here are so-so.

If the software would work with another scanner, I might just pick one up though.

The scanner can work with other software, but the Neat software works with a narrow set of (Neat-redistributed) scanners. If you just don't like this one, they have the NeatDesk, a automatic sheet-fed scanner, which will be easier to scan with, as opposed to this one that scans one at a time.

I have this (well, the older version), and it sometimes has difficulties scanning straight, one reason why the software attempts to auto-straighten, with mixed results. But the software's not bad. An advantage to this scanner, however, is that you can scan those really long receipts you get some places, and the software will try to trim the empty space at the sides to save storage.

And you can scan straight to PDF, and the software allows you to import PDFs you've saved or created elsewhere, like "receipts" from online purchases printed to PDF. Like, say, Woot purchases.

atincup wrote:In for one.

Better of buyng "VuPoint Magic Wand Portable Scanner", same price and can find it on eBay.
It scans 8.27" x 50" 300/600dpi, plus you can scan almost anything; photos, acticles, clothing texture etc.

I meant to grab this yesterday and forgot, I hope they bring it back soon...

I have the NeatDesk and the older version of this one. When I bought the older version I had to pay to upgrade to the 4.0 software, and a year or so later I switched to Mac. I have emailed Neatco many times for support and have found them to be fast, polite, and otterific! This company really has some of the best customer service out there.

I also have an HP All in one at home and the software works fine with it too.
I use acrobat pro, so I can't speak to the OCR without it.
Mac version is much different than windows version, it doesn't really scan photos, it exports to quicken, and office if you by the office version of the software separately. The portable only scans one side at a time, desktop scans both. It doesn't scan as fast as the $1000 canon in my office, but it is fine for me. Portable is super small, powered by USB.

If this comes back I'm buying them as presents for family. ( hint, hint). I also need some keychain monkeys and a new roomba, the pet version please.
And original roomba batteries. Woot! FTW!

Anyone had theirs shipped yet? Woot seems to be taking longer than normal to ship mine...

DogMom23 wrote:Actually, the IRS does not require originals, if that is the type of "audit" you are referring to for keeping originals. Electronic copies are ok with them. You can verify this information here in Pub. 522:


http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html

Or, if you want more information, you can look at Rev. Proc. 97-22, 1997-13 I.R.B. 9.

If you are referring to some "other" type of audit...perhaps something like your state's income tax, sales tax, property tax or other potential audit, you would have to review that Agency's requirements.

However, most, if not all agencies, follow the IRS in adopting these kinds of policies.

Hope that helps!

Why is everyone so worried about the IRS? Unless you are a SERIOUS money man, the chances of you getting audited are extremely small. They are not going after $50,000 a year guys. They are going after the big time money makers that cheat more than the average guy. I'm self employed and made about 40k last year. I, for the most part, was honest but I'm not spending hours upon hours checking every figure and scanning every receipt. Try to be halfway accurate...throw your crap in a box...and send in your taxes. If they audit you, then take the box and throw it on their freaking desks and tell them good luck. If you cheated, you are going to get nailed anyway. If you didn't, THEN you can spend days upon days putting everything together to show them that you didn't cheat. Simple, eh?

esd1987 wrote:Anyone had theirs shipped yet? Woot seems to be taking longer than normal to ship mine...

Still waiting on shipping confirmation on mine too. I'm selling mine to my neighbor and I need that extra $50, damnit.

Still waiting for my shipping to be confirmed also. I'm hoping they get them shipped out today.

Any news on the shipping from someone who knows?

esd1987 wrote:Anyone had theirs shipped yet? Woot seems to be taking longer than normal to ship mine...

Still waiting on my also. I was worried I was missing the link to my order number on my account screen, but it sounds like I'm not the only on waiting! HMMMMM... I have had one of these before the earlier version, and gave it to a friend that needed it more than I did, but I still wanted one, so lucky me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't switched to "shipped" yet. Can anyone from Woot confirm that there has been a delay, or that they will ship soon? I'd guess they're pretty swamped right now after that extended woot-off.
I so wish I'd gotten past the order processing on the Baggie of Cthulhu. Just watching that busy icon felt like it killed me with the teasing.

gergles wrote:As a warning, when they say "PC ONLY", they mean "PC ONLY".

You can't download the Mac software - they expect you to purchase a "Mac Version" of the hardware to get the Mac software.

Or, you can buy it for $80.

Yes, $80. Not joking. http://store.neatco.com/ - scroll down to NeatWorks for Mac.

$67 on Amazon for the Mac version - worth every penny considering if you bought the scanner for Mac, it would cost you more than buying the PC version at the Woot price + Mac software.

No shipping notification here, but today is just 5 business days.

This is my first and probably last purchase on Woot.Where else do you have to wait 5 business days to have an prder shipped? Where else are you not allowed to contact someone to find outwhere the hell your stuff is? I am amased that people think this is cute!

twomany wrote:This is my first and probably last purchase on Woot.Where else do you have to wait 5 business days to have an prder shipped? Where else are you not allowed to contact someone to find outwhere the hell your stuff is? I am amased that people think this is cute!

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You're right. How dare they sell you a product for $120 (60%) off, and then NOT have the decency to ship it within 30 minutes of you clicking the order button!!!

Give me a break, I bought this scanner because it's 60% off on a new product (retails for $200, I bought it for $80, sounds like a great deal to me), and if I were really in THAT big of a hurry to get this, then I would have walked into a store and paid more than TWICE what I paid for it on here.

If you don't think that saving $120 is enough of a reason to mind waiting for an extra week while they ship this to you, then maybe you should just stick to buying all of your stuff at your local "big box" store from now on.

When will woot ship out the items because they still did not ship mine out yet.

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Let me get this straight.. you think it's ok if woot sold 2,747 of these items, charged $90.00 as I, and held on to that $247,230.00 for a week, and you had no recourse except to email! Give me a break! In todays world economy and internet trade you had better get things done wright and quickly or people will pay extra for better service and quality. Most of the stuff I see on this site is refurbished junk. Bottom line is I quess my standards are a bit higher than yours! Oh by the way... items ship timing should be more in the today, next range. I think that is satisfactory.

Is there a delay in shipping? I was charged back on the 23rd.

nrandal wrote:Is there a delay in shipping? I was charged back on the 23rd.

I've checked it at Fedex by tracking by reference(order no.).
Woot has shipped mine on 27th and It's on my way home.
Please.Check it at fedex home page^^

npdoc wrote:I've checked it at Fedex by tracking by reference(order no.).
Woot has shipped mine on 27th and It's on my way home.
Please.Check it at fedex home page^^

Thanks a bunch! Never knew how to do that. Mine are arriving Thursday.

7 days later and nothing shipped...I knew if Amazon got their stinky fingers involved in woot that it would go to crap..

Apparently, there are shipping problems. My order has not changed to shipped either. I am a first time wooter also and am a little disappointed in the whole process. Can someone check and get back to me? Thank you.

twomany wrote:This is my first and probably last purchase on Woot.Where else do you have to wait 5 business days to have an prder shipped? Where else are you not allowed to contact someone to find outwhere the hell your stuff is? I am amased that people think this is cute!

Did you try emailing woot service? Sure, they say to check the community forums; but in the same sentence they also tell you that you can email customer service. Check it out...

npdoc wrote:I've checked it at Fedex by tracking by reference(order no.).
Woot has shipped mine on 27th and It's on my way home.
Please.Check it at fedex home page^^

yep shipped on the 27th but not arriving until the 4th
thanks for the tip
I guess the status flag is broken on woot's site?

agingdragqueen wrote:Sup yo. The vendor sent us the tracking information, but it looks like they did not send us the corresponding order numbers, so it's been hard for us to get these emailed out- but they have shipped!

As mentioned above, you can likely get your tracking by going to FedEx here and then putting in your order number as the reference, zip code and country selection helps too.

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Thank you very much for the update.

Next time this happens, and a vendor sends you the tracking numbers without the corresponding order numbers, can I make a suggestion...

PLEASE have someone from the staff post that information to the discussion right away so that everyone who bought the item knows about it and doesn't get all pissy about it?

I, for one, am kind of shocked that these aren't being shipped from Woot's warehouse in Dallas.
(Unless Martinsburg, West Virginia is now a pit stop between Dallas and Plano).

bsmith1 wrote:Not even 2 dimensions? Pass!

i need at least 11 dimensions for me to be REALLY interested, but flat paper works too. for now

agingdragqueen wrote:Sup yo. The vendor sent us the tracking information, but it looks like they did not send us the corresponding order numbers, so it's been hard for us to get these emailed out- but they have shipped!

As mentioned above, you can likely get your tracking by going to FedEx here and then putting in your order number as the reference, zip code and country selection helps too.

i was able to track via order number reference since last week, but i order more than one and got more than one tracking number...

shawnwaugh wrote:I, for one, am kind of shocked that these aren't being shipped from Woot's warehouse in Dallas.
(Unless Martinsburg, West Virginia is now a pit stop between Dallas and Plano).

Mine actually seems to have been sent from LEWISBERRY, PA.

agingdragqueen wrote: The vendor sent us the tracking information,

Perhaps the deal for this item was arranged to be fulfilled using stock held by a 3rd party vendor outside TX (?)

What the heck? They shipped via SmartPost? It didn't say that on the blog entry!