For the past several years, the Neat Company has been developing a comprehensive new software platform that performs better than and provides enhanced features for, the latest in document scanning, storage, and retrieval. Our latest solutions allow for streamlined operations on all platforms including: Windows, Mac, Android, Apple iOS, and browser access through our web application at app.neat.com. In addition to performance and infrastructure improvements, we have taken the most popular features from our previous OS-specific desktop applications and enhanced Neat with new features only available on the new platform, such as:
Neat 5.7 Legacy Software
Neat Legacy software for Mac is not compatible with Mac OSX 10.15 Catalina. Upgrading your OS to Catalina will render your Legacy software inoperable. The PDFs of your data can be recovered by accessing your 'Neat Library' located in your computer hard drive.
Effective October 2019, Microsoft removed the Visual C++ 2005 and 2008 Redistributable Packages from their website, and they are no longer available for download. Neat Legacy software for Windows relies on certain Microsoft C++ libraries that are no longer available. As such, upon new installation/re-installation of Neat v5.7 or earlier for Windows, the installation will not complete.
If you are still using the Legacy software for Windows, we strongly recommend that you move your data out of Neat, by exporting all your data to PDF files. If your Legacy software crashes or stops working, there will be no way to recover any of the data stored there due to this update.
Users currently on one of these legacy versions of Neat software can continue to use the legacy Neat software for as long as you would like, however, agent-assisted support for these versions ended on July 31st, 2018. Again, we highly recommend moving your data out of Legacy Neat to maintain your data integrity.
All current Neat Desktop software (Neat 5 & Neat for Mac) users are eligible to upgrade to the newest version of Neat. Note that all versions of Neat software after 2015 require a paid subscription to use.
Before you install this, disconnect from the internet as some people have had an issue where when connected, will trigger a prompt for a subscription. I would stay disconnected during the initial setup when opening the software also. I have updated the link as some people had an issue downloading it.
Thank you so much!! I had to replace my hard drive and the carbonite and one drive replaced so much but it would not back up my Neat Receipts software. I have donated as you have solved a great dilemma!!
Thank you! I have downloaded the link and put it on a thumb drive in a safe place. My computer went down and I lost the install software. I battled Neat about this and they put the stand alone version of neat on my computer. I unsubscribed to the online version and received a full refund. I do not like my finances etc. in the cloud. Plus I felt that I had been taken advantage of. I am sending $10 by PayPal.
I have just donated to your site and thanks much for having this available. I had to reset my computer and as such my neat software was deleted and I did not have the install disk and as you know Near only has the subscription option available now. Which I refused to pay for since I was not using prior to my computer reset. In my opinion this is a bad business model for them as when my neat scanner stops working I will not renew with neat I will find a different option to scan my receipts etc.
Neat 5 for Windows is the legacy digital filing system (scanning software) used by The Neat Company's line of NeatReceipts, NeatDesk, and NeatConnect scanners; it works with other brand scanners as well.
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.
Great article, just was researching Paperless by Mariner and it looks like a great option. However their website states that they offer a discount if you have been using an alternate software such as neat. They ask you to contact them for details, and when I did so I was told that they do not offer that discount. While I still may have purchased the software without the discount, the fact that customer service did not seem bothered by the inaccuracy on their website makes me pause as I am wondering what customer service will be like if I have a problem with the program.
You can export your documents to a JPG or to a PDF. With the desktop version you can export groups of documents into one file. The cloud version only handles one document at a time. The large PDF is not especially convenient but it does preserve the data. If you export each item separately you can name the files appropriately and then import them into new software.
As for replacement options, Fujitsu scanners come with good filing software and there are products such as Mariner that also work well. I have not found anything that works as well as the original NEAT.
I posted previously about my solution to document scanning after Neat decided not to support their desktop software anymore. I still use the classic Neat desktop software because I refuse to pay a monthly fee for their cloud service. I use the Neat Desktop software only to scan to PDF instead of a Neat database. The software works great on Windows 10 (1909). I know that at some point the software will stop working, so I proactively exported my Neat database to PDF documents and found they fit nicely in my Google Drive (free) account. So now I have all the benefits of the cloud, plus my entire library is PDF so it is not married to or locked in any particular product. Searching the PDFs works great in Google Drive on the web as well as on the iPhone and Android app even for queries for text within the documents that have been made searchable using OCR. I went through testing other products to scan to PDF but none of them worked correctly using TWAIN (Filecenter, Paperport and a couple others) because the Neat scanner has its own proprietary language that only the Neat software understands correctly. The other programs either scanned multiple pages in the wrong order, or could not scan in color even though it was set to scan in color, or did not crop documents correctly.
I recently discovered that Neat now has a free software called Neat Scan Utility, which is supported on Windows 10 just fine. I presume that after customer defection and so much pushback against the Neat Cloud, they decided to do something nice for a change.
The Neat Scan Utility is by far the best alternative to the classic Neat Desktop application. It works perfectly well, crops documents accurately, and creates searchable PDFs in the folder of your choice on your computer. So I simply point it to my Google Drive folder and it saves the PDFs there. I find the workflow very simple and quick. I think this would be a great solution for those with a Neat scanner and need some good software to scan to PDF.
Neat Desktop and Neat Scan utility have a way to change the scan destination. You can scan to Neat or Scan to PDF. When you scan to PDF the Neat Desktop software will prompt for the destination folder in your computer.
Maybe this will help someone else. I was able to get my old neat scanner working with the NEAT driver and NAPS2 software. I set it as a WIA scanner, and had to set the brightness and contrast up a bit in the profile, but I was able to get good scans repeatedly after that. My settings are 24-bit color, 250 brightness, 150 contrast.
Hardware options seem to be Fujitsu, probably the iX1500. I also have an Epson Workforce that would be used for flat documents, photographs and slides, etc. The software needs to work with both scanner, but not necessarily at the same time.
Since several people have asked about the Fujitsu Scansnap software, I would just like to mention that Scansnap Receipt is very good and can be downloaded for free. Here is a very good review: -receipt/
I have used Neat Desktop for several years. I have years of documents stored on a local Neat database that I need to backup constantly because hard drives die some day. Then Neat decided that we should upload our entire document collection to their cloud service, years of PHI, HIPPA, and confidential data, and we should entrust basically our entire lives to their cloud so they can lock it neatly behind a monthly fee for their business pleasure. I say no to that. I shall not submit perpetual wallet loyalty to any company and allow them to hold hostage my entire document collection full of private and sensitive data which they will happily shred to pieces with a click of a mouse in the event I can no longer pay their fees, which by the way, are never guaranteed to stay at the same price level. Allowing ourselves to become corporate slaves gives them control over our wallets and that is something we should be quite aware of before it is too late. If you need more evidence of how evil companies can become once they lock you into their monthly subscriptions, look what Adobe has been doing recently.
Neat has gone from being a joy to use to a huge hassle. If the cloud software had the desktop functionality I would likely have kept using it but it is primitive, unreliable, and not a joy to use by any stretch of the imagination.
I have a Neat Scan bar that I bought around 2012. My Neat software is 5.7.1_474. My computer is running the most current version of Windows 10. I am still able to scan to Neat, without a Cloud subscription. 2ff7e9595c
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