Hey Matt,

Depends on how naughty you are with your receipts. I tend to mash them up in my pockets and then take them out a day or so later, so they’re in pretty ragged shape by the time they make it to the ScanSnap. But I’ve found that most of the time, it can gobble them up like anything else. But if if it’s a little torn and you’re afraid the scanning process might literally rip the receipt, then the holder thing might be in order.

I rarely have occasion to use the document holder, to be honest, but I can totally appreciate that they give us one for those odd cases where you want to digitize something but are afraid it won’t agree with the brute mechanical aspect of the ScanSnap process.

Save it for those special occasions when you want to post the old family copy of the Magna Carta on Flickr.