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For a number of years, a Neat scanner was a decent option, including the NeatDesk and the NeatConnect. Neat seems to have discontinued its hardware business to focus on cloud-based scanning and document management software, so we definitely can no longer recommend Neat scanners and suggest you get a instead. That said, if you’re still shopping Neat scanners for some reason, here are our NeatDesk and NeatConnect scanner reviews.

NeatDesk Neat Scanner Review I can’t help comparing the NeatDesk to the ScanSnap, mainly because a ScanSnap has been sitting on my desk for many years. ScanSnaps are easy to set up, easy to use, come with simple scanning software, and include Adobe Acrobat, a ~$250 value.

But I have always wanted to try the NeatDesk, so I was thrilled when Neat gave me a test unit to try out. It feels like the NeatDesk has been around forever, in part because I see it in the SkyMall catalog whenever I travel.

The hardware is attractive, and the NeatDesk promises to help users get organized, not just convert paper to bits. That turns out to be more or less true—if you have a fair amount of patience. It’s a very good scanner for the typical consumer, but a poor choice for a law office. NeatDesk form factor Closed up, the NeatDesk is pretty. With all the paper supports extended, however, it strikes a pretty awkward pose. Still, it looks better sitting on my desk than the ScanSnap.

The ScanSnap is more compact when closed up (which means you could toss it in a duffel bag if you don’t have a ), but that’s not really important, since both scanners will sit on your desk 99% of the time. One of the NeatDesk’s distinguishing features is its document feeder, which has specially-sized slots for business cards, receipts, and regular-width paper. The idea is that it helps prevent paper from moving around. In practice, it means you can’t fit very much paper into the automatic document feeder without removing the guide. If you do try removing the feeder insert, though, you can fit plenty of pages. The NeatDesk document scanner has just two buttons on its face: Scan and PDF.

The Scan button is for scanning into the NeatWorks software, while the PDF button, more intuitively, is for scanning directly to a PDF. Since I don’t particularly like NeatWorks (more on why below), I found that button useless, and would have preferred one configurable button, like the ScanSnap uses, instead of two that I cannot customize. Since you can generally use the NeatDesk without pulling out the extensions, I’m giving it the edge over the ScanSnap in the looks department.

Of course, if you are buying on looks alone, you don’t need this review. Scanning with the NeatDesk The NeatDesk is both fast and slow. It pulls documents through the ADF really quickly.

I’m not sure what the default resolution is, but if it’s scanning documents at the same resolution as my ScanSnap, it’s way faster at running through a stack of paper. Once the the ADF is empty, however, you can take a nap while the NeatDesk Quick Scan utility processes the data.

Need to make a quick copy for a client? Not happening, because you cannot change this process; there is no option to turn off OCR. In fact, there are few options at all. Basically, you can decide whether to scan in black-and-white or color, single-sided or double-sided, and whether to scan each page as a separate file or many pages as a single file.

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