NeatScan Scanning Service

We just found out about this service and it sounds like a great solution for a small business.

The way small businesses deal with paper is an important matter.  Some keep what they need handy and store all their hard copy files at an offsite storage center, making the files very cumbersome to get to.  In addition this adds another monthly expense for the small business. Others spend a ton of money on data entry so that the information they may need is somewhere on their hard drive.  Eventually that can add to another expensive storage problem.

As more and more small businesses get smarter they are turning to cloud based environments to host all their important paper documents in one place that can be easily accessed.

The Neat Company recently introduced one of these options.  NeatScan®, a mail-in, bulk scanning service, scans paper documents for Neat users and sends digitized versions directly into their NeatCloud® account.  The service utilizes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Neat’s patented parsing technology to make every document fully searchable and automatically extracts data from receipts and business cards in a way that it can be activated for expense reports, tax preparation and export to other commonly used systems.

Here is how it works:

· Sign up for a NeatCloud plan

· Order pre-paid NeatScan envelopes and boxes and ship all your paper documents to the Neat Company via mail

· Specify how you want your documents scanned and organized

· Neat will scan the documents as you requested and place them in your digital folders

· In just a few days, you will see the documents added to your NeatCloud account

The documents will then be available everywhere users have access to Neat (web, mobile, desktop).  From there, items can be safely stored, and easily organized, accessed and shared.

Customers can request that their original paper documents be returned to them or safely shredded.