As a sole practitioner trying to keep costs down I have been looking for something modestly priced to save my time scanning documents and receipts for tax related purposes. The IRS will accept good quality scans. Most vendors I have encountered accept scans, even for returns. While there are a few rebate offers that will accept only originals, my personal experience is that more and more are willing, even desire scans. Further, I am not looking for a high quality OCR. I already have that. Rather I'm looking for quick and relatively simple for daily record keeping and clutter reduction.

It seems that Paperless is a customized iPhoto for receipts and documents. That I like. It also seems to add limited, alphanumeric OCR that can be used for data entry via QIF exchange format. To me that is helpful, but not essential. I prefer the direct data entry into Quicken or iBank.

What concerns me more about Paperless, is that Mariner says up front that it works best on Fujitsu ScanSnap or Pentax DS Mobile scanners. They also say problems have been reported on HP and Epson scanners and that Canon, Brother and Lexmark scanner users have reported problems. And, I happen to have Epson scanners. So the issue for me is not, the reasonably priced $50.00 software, but the requirement to buy another scanner for hundreds.

I would appreciate any reviews that relate to using Paperless with the scanners mentioned above, in my case particularly Epson.

Note to VersionTracker: I would appreciate the option of "Neither" under "Recommend..." when submitting a commentary. In this case I'm forced to either recommend or not. Since I'm hopeful in this case I selected "Yes", but I am really not recommending at this point.