Less Paper
Friday, December 12th, 2008I have, I think, all the receipts I’ve ever received still sitting in boxes with me.
Why do I have them? Well, at first it was for tax reasons, but I also like to reflect on the past. They remind me of the adventures I’ve been on throughout the years. However, after visiting my parent’s house and seeing all the paper I have there too, I decided it was time to find ways of getting rid of it all.
I have a flatbed scanner, but I don’t like to use it because it takes so long. I have to place each piece of paper in and then do a prescan, and then highlight the part I want, and then do a real scan.. and it takes a long time.
Enter the NeatReceipts scanner. I bought it through Costco for $150 and they have the mac software available on their site. When I opened the box I saw how incredibly small this is! Plus it is USB powered!
I wish I would have bought it long ago. It truly is a small, fast little scanner that will allow me to trash my old receipts!! Plus it can do single full-size pieces of paper!
I told myself that I wouldn’t start scanning until after the next video with Gil was posted up, but I couldn’t help myself.
I scanned a paper bag full of reciepts already! It is really quick. You put the receipt in and press a button and it feed through. As soon as it passes you can put in the next one. The processing is done in the background. It takes the info, makes a PDF document of it and then does OCR to type what it thinks the reciept says. The OCR does a REALLY great job too!
They’ll have new mac software soon I hear, I can only see this getting better though! Ah, finally I’ll have a life with less paper taking up space!