ReceiptWallet - 2.0.9

The OCR in the app is terrible. It rarely picks up the amounts from the receipts (and even more rarely does it pick up the dates) and on the odd occasion it finds an amount it's WRONG!

Not only do you have to manually correct / populate the info for almost every receipt but if you were to miss an incorrect amount it would be stored like that making it useless. This could even screw you up at tax time if you went with the wrong number. We’re not talking a matter of cents here either. Many receipts I scanned were OCR at $1 when the amount was something like $84.97. In other cases it was picking up numbers that were not even on the receipt. It picked up an amount of $77.77... I don’t even think there were any 7’s on the receipt anywhere!!!

If you want to use this for OCR stay far far away. Otherwise it might be ok, but if I have to enter all the info manually I will just do it once in my Billings3 software (to track expenses) and be done with it. No sense in trying to use this to automatically input receipts if you have to type them all in anyways. Might as well just scan them into a folder for a backup copy and use any other piece of software to manually enter the amounts. Sure you would have the searchable info (amounts, merchant, dates, etc) attached to the images of the receipts, but is it really worth doubling up on your efforts and having that stuff spread across two pieces of software just to try and save some time with OCR that doesn’t work? I don’t think so. Billings3 and other programs can link up to external files (aka the receipt you scanned) so why add another app just to do the same thing and double your work load?

I've used the application for some time now and I have used a TWAIN scanner with no problems with the exception of the scanning was a little slow. I now have ScanSnap and it's just great. The only problem that I'm having with ReceiptWallet is when I do a Report and include the Tax information, the sum total is way off the mark. It does not give me a true total.

After using this program for some time now I'd like to revise what my comment about the price: it's certainly worth the fee the developer is asking when you consider how well this program performs when keeping all of your papers in one instantly searchable place. Using categories and smart folders together really makes this app shine. A competing app uses a "tags" approach to organization which, though it would seem to be a better approach, I found to be rather cumbersome and provided me less organizational control. The developer really listens to the customer, and that's a huge plus.

I used this program to catalogue a lifetime's worth of paper documents into one nice little searchable package. After trying out many, many database apps, this was the standout one for my particular task-which was scanning many thousands of pages into pdf. Used together with the Fujitsu Scansnap, it made a unbelievably complex and time consuming job manageable. I was able to scan and keyword all my research files (as a college prof this is no small number) in less than a week for a move overseas. The simplicity of this program is what I appreciated - I just plugged in the scanner, and within a few minutes I was the master of my database. The developer seems reliable and continually updates the program. Many useful features have been added since I first purchased it.

NOTE TO DEVELOPER: One feature that would be very helpful would be an "lock" option for individual catalogues or at least for the whole database.

ReceiptWallet was already a gem of an application. This upgrade is awesome. Not only does it make ReceiptWallet much more powerful, it just gave me DocumentWallet for FREE! This application is so useful for storing receipts for taxes. I find it the MOST useful application come tax time of any I have ever tried to help me manage my records. It's elegant.