Comments on: Digitizing Paper is a New Cottage Industry

By: dg

dg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:42:30 +0000

I have NeatReceipts, and yes, the scanning part has been a complete royal pain and way too time consuming for my preference. So much so that I’ve pretty much stopped using it.

The Shoeboxed idea sounds interesting — my concern would be privacy. It’s great to have a privacy “policy”, but it doesn’t guarantee that unscrupulous employees would always comply. Although…you could argue that my bank (and their employees) have plenty of my private spending habit info (with the exception of cash purchases).

By: danenglander

danenglander — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:16:00 +0000

Shoeboxed is one of the fastest growing companies in North Carolina, and we’ve just been nominated for an award by the Industry Standard! They just keep me around to spread the Shoeboxed love wherever I go :)

Thanks for the exchange! Let me know if you have any other questions.

My email is dan@team.shoeboxed.com

Dan
Shoeboxed.com

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:17:35 +0000

What can I tell you, I scan about 3 or 4 receipts perday into my scanner, and yes, while it takes more than 30 seconds, it does not take more than a minute. You must be a pretty small company if you have time for all this back and forth on some tech site.

By: danenglander

danenglander — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:37:35 +0000

Eric, If you can find a way to scan all my receipts in 30 seconds a day, I'd be interested! Unfortunately, when I used to use my scanner to scan all my receipts, it took me almost a day every month! Scanning is really time intensive unless you have a very expensive feed scanner. OCR software on desktop applications is not immediate; it can be very slow. It's also only about 60-70% accurate in my experience. I think its something that a lot of people would like to do themselves, but it ends up piling up any way because it's time consuming and boring. And if you're curious about how Shoeboxed can help you, nothing is cheaper than free ;) Free trial: start.shoeboxed.com To read about our extensive privacy and security procedures, please check out our privacy policy. Dan Englander Shoeboxed.com

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:13:21 +0000

Scanning receipts in takes 30 seconds a day, and is thus cheaper, and more efficient as there is no waiti time, and no concern of anyone seeing your private info.

By: rickmans

rickmans — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:18:43 +0000

Perhaps a nice reference: Hamlet's Blackberry why paper is eternal.

By: danenglander

danenglander — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:21:03 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Josh. Shoeboxed is the only way to cheaply and efficiently outsource the really annoying part of organizing, which is of course the scanning part. We also have a free trial that you can access at start.shoeboxed.com Dan Englander Shoeboxed.com

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:58:00 +0000

There is also NeatReceipts which allows you to scan your own receipts into a file on your pc. Cheaper and more efficient.