![]() Use Neat to organize files into different built-in categories (documents, receipts, business cards) as well as your own user-defined folders. If you’re familiar with Evernote, you already know the general idea of how Neat for Mac functions. Neat for Mac’s main window greets you when you launch the app. Neat for Mac can also import documents not originating from a scan-adding them either from the Finder or via Add to Neat commands in the PDF menu of Print dialogs. ![]() NeatDesk Neat for Mac is an all-in-one application for storing and manipulating your scans. Once again, they take distinctly different approaches. The two competing scanners each come with their own custom software. More practical would be a ScanSnap S1100 mobile scanner connectable to an iPad via Bluetooth-usable even when a Mac is nowhere in sight. While impressive to see it in action, cordless scanning has only limited value for now avoiding the Mac doesn’t save much time in this situation. ScanSnap Connect also has no option comparable to NeatMobile’s photo-to-scan. The latter option can be helpful because, unlike NeatCloud, ScanSnap Connect doesn’t sync scans across iOS devices. You can view the scans from the Connect app itself or send them to other iOS apps, such as Dropbox. Just tap the Scan button in the mobile app and you’re off and running. Yes, cord-cutters, this means there is no intervening step that requires a Mac or PC. After a simple set-up, you can send a scan directly from the iX500 to the Connect app on any mobile device. What’s new with the iX500 is its built-in Wi-Fi GI processor. This is not new you can already do this with the software that comes with older ScanSnap machines. ScanSnap iX500 Via the Scan to Mobile option in the ScanSnap software, you can send scans from a Mac to the Send images from ScanSnap Connect to Dropbox, Evernote, and beyond. Neat plans to add more features to NeatMobile later this year, including editing on an iOS device of data extracted from documents “scanned” with the camera. For example, iCloud users can almost as conveniently transfer photos from their iPhone to their Mac via Photo Stream, and import them to Neat if desired. Even if everything worked perfectly, the service doesn’t seem worth paying a monthly fee-unless you use it very frequently. ![]() Other times, loading stalled with a persistent spinning sundial. Sometimes a selected scan loaded quickly. Going the other way, the mobile app’s ability to view scans from a Mac was inconsistent. However, I could not get the camera to focus in the Neat app, which sometimes resulted in photos too blurry for OCR processing. In my testing, transferring a photo from an iPhone to a Mac worked well. The service requires that you open an account and pay a minimum of $6 per month. NeatMobile accomplishes all of this by shunting your data through its new Going in the other direction, scans stored on your Mac sync to NeatMobile on all your iOS devices. If the photo is of a text document, Neat’s OCR processing software kicks in and analyzes it. NeatMobile iOS app, you can take a photo and wirelessly send it to your Mac. Tap NeatMobile’s Scan button to take a photo and send it as a scanned image to your Mac.
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