Hardware Requirements - Scanners
Drivers
Animo offers a 'Native TWAIN' scanning mode, which uses the TWAIN driver's own user interface. This means that Animo is compatible with virtually all scanners with a TWAIN driver.

Mac OS X

Macintosh TWAIN drivers must be 'Mac OS X native' for use with Animo – 'Classic mode' drivers are not suitable.

Animo 6.0 and Animo 5.0 (Patch 1658) include support for Image Capture scanner drivers, including the TWAIN Bridge on OS X 10.2 and the EPSON Scanner on OS X 10.3.

If your scanner does not yet have a Mac OS X native TWAIN or Image Capture driver you can scan using the software supplied with the scanner and then import the scanned images into Animo, or you can scan into Animo on Windows and transfer the files to your Macintosh.

A future patch release for Animo will offer support for SANE drivers on Mac OS X when a stable release of SANE is available.

Windows
Animo supports both TWAIN and ISIS drivers on Windows.

Suggested Scanners
Note: Scanner manufacturers are constantly updating their ranges, so you may find that models mentioned below are no longer available. Also, some manufacturers give their scanner models different names in different territories.

Ricoh 
IS 01, IS 330, IS 420, IS 430, IS 450 and similar models

Fujitsu 
M 4097D, fi 4750C and similar models

Epson 
All current Epson scanners, A4 and A3 format
Note: Epson add-on belt-feed ADF is not ideal for use with Animo, contact support for more information

Hewlett-Packard
Many current HP scanners, including the 7400 series with ADF

Agfa 
Horizon Plus, Duoscan

MicroTek 
Many current MicroTek scanners, including the ScanMaker 9800XL



Umax 
We are awaiting results of testing by our reseller network.
Some Umax scanners will only work with Native TWAIN scanning.