Stay Organized With NeatCloud, The Online Filing System!
Developer’s Description: NeatCloud is an online Digital Filing System designed to provide users with their own, personalized cloud-based information system. NeatCloud is the first cloud-based solution to incorporate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and parsing technology. NeatCloud can extract data from items in the Digital Filing System to create entirely new value for the user. By “activating” this data, users can search for and share important documents, manage eReceipts, create expense reports and digital contact lists. NeatCloud also syncs with Neat’s desktop software and NeatMobile. With NeatMobile, mobile devices can be used to quickly view all the information in a Digital Filing System while on the go. NeatMobile also turns mobile devices into a Neat scanner by allowing users to “scan” images using the camera on their mobile device. In the same way NeatCloud leverages OCR and parsing , NeatMobile extracts information from mobile images.
Cost: Free
Category: Productivity
Author: The Neat Company
Platform: iOS, Android
JUDGES REVIEW
Neat’s mobile apps don’t standout as standalones. Instead, they’re worth a look as part of an entire NeatCloud ecosystem that allows you to capture, store, search and share your paper and digital documents. Neat allows you to scan documents, receipts, business cards either through its own proprietary scanners or by snapping a photo with your smartphone or tablet. Its secret sauce: A system that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to make them searchable right down to the word, just as though they were purely digital. Even as it attempts to distinguish itself from other document storage and management solutions, Neat makes no pretense about serving companies of more than 10 employees. For these very small businesses, especially those that still depend on keeping stuff on paper, it’s a worthy option. One red flag, however: To take full advantage of the NeatCloud, you need to use Neat’s own scanners. That all-in-one you already have won’t — at least not until later in 2013.
- Patrick Houston
