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Updated: 4/18/2016 11:35am EDT
After several months of communicating with Apple developers, they have identified an issue within the current release of their operating system (El Capitan 10.11.xx) that prohibits certain scanner drivers (including Neat’s) from working properly with Mac Image Capture. While Apple has not been able to resolve the issue as of yet, Neat continued to work with a 3rd party development team to diagnose and create an updated driver to work around Apple’s bug.
In recent testing, this latest version of Neat for Mac drivers appears to resolve the underlying Mac Image Capture issue and allows you to scan from within Neat’s desktop software environment.
We truly appreciate your patience with this issue and continued use of Neat!
Compatible Neat Scanner’s
| Neat Scanner | Scanner Model Number | Supported | |
| NeatConnect | |||
| NeatConnect | NC-1000 | Yes | |
| NeatDesk | |||
| NeatDesk | ND-1000 | Yes | |
| NeatReceipts | |||
| NeatReceipts | NM-1000 | Yes | |
| NeatDesk (Unsupported Model) | |||
| NeatDesk Unsupported Model | ADF-070108 | No | |
| NeatReceipts (Unsupported Model) | |||
| NeatReceipts Unsupported Model | NR-030108 | No | |
| Neat Silver Mobile | |||
| Neat Silver Mobile | SCSA4601EU | No | |
If you are using an unsupported model scanner as listed in the chart above, there will not be updated drivers available for El Capitan. If you are using one of these models you can see information on purchasing a newer scanner model here.
To install the new driver, follow the steps below:
- Quit Neat and disconnect your scanner.
- Download and install Neat 4.5 for Mac El Capitan
- Click the Finder icon from your Dock (or click on an empty space on your desktop). The Finder has the blue smiling face icon.
- Open the Go menu at the top of the screen and select the Go To Folder option.
- Copy and paste the following path in the Go To Folder window to open the directory: /Library/Image Capture/Devices
- Delete any items in here that begin with Neat. There may only be one scanner driver listed depending on when you originally installed Neat.
- Leave that window open and click here to download the updated driver.
- Go back to Finder, click the File menu and choose New Finder Window
- Open the Downloads folder and you will see a file called NeatScannerICDriver.zip. Double click that file and the NeatScannersICDriver.app file should automatically be extracted into your Downloads folder.
- Drag and drop the NeatScannersICDriver.app file from the downloads folder, into the /Library/Image Capture/Devices folder you opened previously. You may be prompted to enter your Mac password.
- Lastly, right click (or CTRL + click) the NeatScannersICDriver.app file that is now in the Devices folder and choose Open. If you see the following message click Open again. You will only have to do this once to allow the driver permission to run.
- Now open Neat and then re-connect your scanner. Once the software is open and the scanner is turned on try scanning again.
