![]() ![]() My rule of thumb is that for an average receipt you'll get 2 out of 3 of vendor, date, and amount, and in many cases as you can see in some of the receipts that we've been scanning in that people have handed us, we get all of the information all together. It's never going to be 100%, but we're actually-our aim is to have about 80% accuracy on all fields. ![]() This particular receipt, it was not able to extract the amount. And you can see from the fields it's extracted right up here that it has figured out that this receipt is a California Pizza receipt, that it was January 14th, it was paid for by Visa, and it's a meal/restaurant receipt. And then the last thing it does is it looks at that and tries to figure out from the OCR what this receipt is. Then it generates a PDF, which you'll then see there. Now it's doing OCR, it's attempting to figure out what the text on this receipt is. So once it's finished doing the scanning.and sort of down here it tells you what it's doing. It'll take a while but it'll eventually finish. You can even drop 100 PDFs on our app and it'll sit there and grind through it. All of our processing, the OCR, the analysis, all happens in the background. You can feed receipts through as quickly as they can go through the machine. And while it's in progress you can actually continue to use the app. Right now I actually have to stick it in and click a toolbar button. When we're not running pre-release software you'll be able to just push the button on the scanner to do a scan. Mark: And, um, we will, um, let me just do a very quick demo if I can grab a receipt here for a second. The Windows users will have to wait until the Fall till they get the new hardware. But we're going to be the first ones, the Mac users are going to be the first ones to see the new hardware in March. We've been shipping with this for about a couple years now on the Windows side. And we're very excited because this is actually a completely new generation of the scanner. And then the final thing is because we're a Mac app then of course you have to have cover flow. You know, so you can see a whole bunch of receipts very small or blow them up to a size where they're almost full size. You can see all your receipts in little tiles that you can change the size on. We also support a view that's a little bit like iPhoto. You can edit, it's pretty standard Mac stuff in that sense. And, uh, this is the page view: it's the simplest, you can see things in a table-style view. What you're looking at right here is a pre-release build you can kind of see some of the receipts that we've been scanning in during the day here at Mac World. A follow on version will add business card support as well and will integrate with the address book. Our first version will be shipping at the end of March, and will support documents and receipts. It's not a port of the Windows version, it's a ground-up reengineering of the same idea. Um, we've been looking at doing-our users have been demanding a Mac version for quite a while, and we've been working since the beginning of the year of producing our first Mac version. We are very good at combining the actions of scanning, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and Analysis, so instead of just scanning your receipts, you actually extract the information out of them and put them into a database. Neat Receipts has been around for about 5 years, and we make a product that a lot of people have seen in airports, because we have a lot of airport kiosks. So tell us a little bit about Neat Receipts. Now Neat Receipts is a program and a scanner that have been available for PC users for a while and now they're finally going to be coming to the Mac. Gary: Hi this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now. They announced this late last year, and I got a chance to talk with them at the Mac World Expo. Well, good news is that NeatReceipts is coming to the Mac. And this is a great way to keep track of all your receipts, especially if you've got a small business or if you just want to keep track of your personal expenses. You go ahead and you scan in the receipt, it recognizes some of the characters on it and kind of creates a little accounting file for you. Now what Neat Receipts is is it's a little scanner and a piece of software, and you just take all your receipts, whether it's your lunch receipt from Taco Bell, or a business expense from Office Max. Well one of them is something called, "Neat Receipts". And every once in a while there's something really cool that they've got that unfortunately there's no Mac version for. You know, some of my friends actually use PCs, not Macs. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 43: Neat Receipts at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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