
NeatWorks always correctly recognized where numerical data was on a document, although it was less successful at finding and handling specific information, such as the amount of tax I paid or the name of the business where I made the purchase. No matter how mangled my receipt, NeatWorks easily found the total and receipt date and appropriately placed that information into the program’s form fields. NeatWorks is quite good at OCR, especially when it comes to recognizing information on receipts. When the OCR is done, NeatWorks does two things: it tries to determine the type of document you’ve scanned (text document, receipt, or business card), and then populates data fields with information it finds on your document based on the document type it has selected. The Neat Company has a list of scanners that work with the program.) When a scan is complete, NeatWorks begins performing optical character recognition (OCR) on your documents depending on the size of and amount of information on your document, this can take anywhere from a few seconds to just under a minute to complete.

(NeatWorks works with several other scanners and is available for purchase separately from the NeatReceipts package. NeatReceipts ships with a small portable scanner that you use to scan documents into the NeatWorks application. NeatWorks is a combination scan and data capture program that lets you scan receipts, business cards, and other documents, automatically extract data from those documents, and then store that data in NeatWorks or export it to programs like Address Book, Quicken, Excel ( ), or Numbers ( ).
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NeatReceipts, which includes the NeatWorks for Mac 2.0 software, may well change all that.

I’ve got a box full of receipts: some business-related, some personal, some from the doctor’s office, others from the local grocery store-and I don’t want to deal with any of them.
