Neat scanner

This page is for notes on trying to get a Neat Company desktop scanner working with Linux.

2025-01-10

There is a scattering of inquiries on various web fora about how to get this scanner working with Linux. So far, I've only been able to get as far as:

• lsusb sees the device as "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1f44:0050 The Neat Company Neat ADF Scanner"
• sudo sane-find-scanner reports:

found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x1f44 [The Neat Company], product=0x0050 [Neat ADF Scanner], chip=GL845) at libusb:001:004
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

• ...but scanimage -L does not see it.

It seems likely that a first step is to get the firmware file from the install CD (which I do have) and try to get SANE to install it (this has worked with one other scanner).