The Neat Company NeatScan To Office Scans to Excel Outlook Word and PowerPoint (White)
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Manufacturer: The Neat CompanyFormat: CD
Model: 00179
Color: White
Product features:
- Installs a Scan button in all your MS Office applications
- Scans directly to Office applications
- Mobile, easy to carry scanner goes everywhere
- Boost productivity and cut down on re-typing, cutting and pasting
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Customer Review: Portable scanner that does (pretty much) what it is supposed to ...
Summary: 4 Stars
The Neat Company "NeatScan To Office" does what is is supposed to do - scan documents to Microsoft Office apps - seamlessly and with only a few limitations.
The scanner is quite small (1.5" x 2.5" square, about 12" long) and should easily fit into a computer bag for travel. Another plus for potability is that the unit is powered completely from a computer's USB port; no external power brick is needed. Software installation went smoothly, other than getting bit while trying to install a SW upgrade (I didn't pay attention to the "must Run as Administrator" warning for Vista, my bad).
The unit's best features are reserved for Microsoft Word plug-in, where you can scan a document in as an image, as unformatted text, or as formatted text. I thought that the Scan to Office SW did a very good job of scanning a formatted Word doument with an embedded table - I needed to do a bit of cleanup to get the table borders correct, but otherwise the formatting was very close to the original and the text was spot on. Scan to text also worked fine. The only issue I had with Word is that scanning a document as an image caused a black text on white paper to become black text on grey. When scanning color graphics, the resulting output had a significant color shift and too much contrast.
Unfortunately, not as many features were allowed for the plug-ins for Excel or PowerPoint. In particular, the Excel plug-in allows scanning as an image only; I would really have wanted some way to scan a printed spreadsheet into Excel as values. PowerPoint allows scanning documents in as an image or text; there is no option to scan as formatted text. Now of course you can work around these limitation by scanning into Word and then using cut/paste to Excel or PowerPoint, but it is too bad that these limitations do exist.
Two other things: scanning directly to a searchable PDF is supported, and scanning of B&W / color photographs is supported (but just about unusable due to the color shifts and contrast issues above).
In summary, this is a nice portable solution that does what it's made to do well, but it misses 5-star territory due to its limited functionality with Excel, and gets no extra credit due to mediocre image scanning.
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