Maintaining Neat Desktop, and continuing its development, is probably the easiest route to take a depreciating asset, and turn it around into a profitable one. I want to pay for the software, I don’t want my documents in the cloud.
#NEAT FOR MAC SIERRA PRO#
My 10 year old Mac Pro could run Neat’s software with gusto.
#NEAT FOR MAC SIERRA PC#
PC sales are not the same as software sales.
Despite its age, Neat still has one of the better solutions out there. Many of us don’t want all their documents stored in the cloud, for various reasons. Break free from the Neat-branded scanners, but keep building the desktop apps as an alternative to the cloud. Here’s what I would do – Continue development of Neat Desktop as a paid software product. It is unchanged however from their final, still-buggy beta release. For some reason, Neat has said they won’t code-sign the older scanner drivers, and thus people with those older scanners have to follow a second guide.Ĭlarification: Following criticism from this article, and elsewhere, Neat announced that the last beta release would be rebranded as a final free Mac release. Despite promising to do so, they still have only published a partial fix beta. Worse, they never finished patching the app for El Capitan. Neat offered the best desktop OCR-and-document-management solution I’ve used on the Mac. Frankly, I’m not surprised more don’t use this solution – and I know a lot of people – particularly Mac users – who do! Neat Could Fix This! (And here’s how!)Īt the same time, I am completely uninterested in Neat’s cloud offerings – as I suspect most of their desktop customers are. Many sub-$80 all-in-one’s now offer automated document feeders. Plus Neat’s free rider problem was probably reaching epidemic levels.Ī USB all-in-one scanner and printer is practically free at retail stores (since they profit from the ink).
It’s much better to charge per month for something, versus a one-time purchase that people may not ever upgrade.
#NEAT FOR MAC SIERRA FOR MAC OS X#
NeatWorks for Mac OS X 10.5 or Earlier – 3.5.7.3.Since the links are publicly visible, here they are ( I cannot mirror these, get them while you can!): Needless to say, I can understand their reasoning. Rival solutions of this caliber cost around $100 to $300 when Neat debuted. This created a free rider problem, where many used their own cheaper scanner – and Neat for Mac’s free OCR and document management system. You do not need a Neat scanner to use most Neat versions. Thankfully, Neat didn’t yank the downloads at the end of March – so I just beamed them down for safe keeping. The only notice is buried on their support page. In fact, they did it so quietly that they didn’t tweet it or even mention it on their OS X El Capitan status page. Neat last month quietly announced that they were discontinuing their desktop apps, and focusing solely on their cloud product. But it’s still the best out there, so grab it while you can! My favorite (free!) document management system… just got discontinued.
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