Once you’ve scanned and corrected your information, NeatWorks makes it easy to move that data to applications where it may be more useful. While NeatWorks populated the company field with data from where the business name was on the card, what appeared in that field was “xAlaoio jCaiUem £r*ocluction&.” This was easy enough to fix manually and only happened with difficult fonts. For example, one business card had “Magic Lantern Productions” written in script as the company name. So, while the program always placed the correct information in the correct fields, occasionally first and last names got concatenated, or gibberish appeared in the fields. But NeatWorks struggled a bit with fonts that looked more like script, and with type that was very small or too closely spaced together. I scanned a half-dozen cards, with a variety of different fonts, type sizes, and images, and NeatWorks always correctly recognized the business card and pulled the proper information into the program’s data fields. When it comes to scanning business cards, NeatWorks is a pretty slick application. NeatReceipts comes with NeatWorks 2.0 software, which helps you organize receipts and business cards, capturing information for use in programs like Numbers and Excel.

I also found that NeatWorks often confused receipts with documents-a problem that could be fixed with a simple menu selection. Fortunately, because NeatWorks always knew where the numerical data was, I was able to drag and drop the information from the receipt image to the proper form field, where NeatWorks then filled in the correct text. 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.

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