And I now use Dropbox to store a huge collection of scanned documents and access them from several Macs. I use Neat at home and have liked it a lot, for more than 7 years. But here on this thread I’ve learned Neat is retreating from their prior support of third party scanners on the Mac platform.

The newest software now includes a few nice features that I want, including better de-skewing (page straightening) auto page cropping, and better page analysis and OCR.Īll this has me looking for an alternative and the Fujitsu Snapscan ix500 seemed a good choice. What this means is that owners of the older 2008 Neat ADF scanners must purchase a new scanner in order to take advantage of improvements in the Neat software. The current version for the Mac is version 4.3.0.36. So I’m unable to update Neat for MAC beyond version 4.1.0.187. But it seems thay DO provide updates for their legacy scanner drivers on the PC. Neat no longer support driver updates for their ADF 2008 scanners on the Mac. Keep in mind that it seems to be Neat’s official position that it won’t work, so you are probably not going to get any help from them doing this, so caveat emptor.Īnyone run into any problems using NeatWorks with their newer ScanSnap? In both cases the scanning appears to have worked fine. That sounded wacky to me, so I decided to try it out using the exact same profile that I had created back in that original post.įirst I tried scanning to NeatWorks with my S1300:

The strange thing is, apparently if you ask, Neat is telling people that only the S510M and S300M are officially supported and newer ScanSnaps probably won’t work. Since then, I have had a lot of people ask if NeatWorks will work with newer ScanSnaps such as the ScanSnap S1500, the ScanSnap S1300, or the ScanSnap S1100. Neatco sells the Mac version separately (though not the Windows version for some strange reason).Īt the time, I was using a ScanSnap S300M and the latest desktop scanner was the S510M.

In case you don’t know, NeatWorks is the software that comes with the NeatDesk and NeatReceipts scanner.

Some time ago, I posted an article about how to use NeatWorks for Mac with the Fujitsu ScanSnap.

Will a neat scanner for mac work on pc