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ExactScan offers high-speed document scanning for Mac.
ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox. The drivers built into ExactScan allow to use these PC document scanners on a Mac. The software allows to scan with a fingertip, comfortable directly with a press of a button from the scanner hardware as well as offering an intuitive user interface. ExactCODE continues to provide automated and intelligent document scanning for
ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox. The drivers built into ExactScan allow to use these PC document scanners on a Mac. The software allows to scan with a fingertip, comfortable directly with a press of a button from the scanner hardware as well as offering an intuitive user interface. ExactCODE continues to provide automated and intelligent document scanning for
What's New
Version 2.20.1:
- Added support for various new scanners
- Improved support and scan-speed for certain new scanner models
- Improved auto-crop & de-skew accuracy and performance
- Many other improvements
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ExactScan offers high-speed document scanning for Mac.
ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox. The drivers built into ExactScan allow to use these PC document scanners on a Mac. The software allows to scan with a fingertip, comfortable directly with a press of a button from the scanner hardware as well as offering an intuitive user interface. ExactCODE continues to provide automated and intelligent document scanning for the Macintosh.
Abroad or in a workgroup: ExactScan's built-in scanner drivers cover the whole range, from Visioneer's portable RoadWarrior to dependable workgroup scanners from Xerox, Visioneer, Kodak, and Avision. ExactScan is the universal Mac solutions everywhere. It allow for easy scanning of business cards, bills and receipts and ExactScan Pro's built-in OCR can directly save them as searchable PDFs.
With the built-in OCR ExactScan Pro allows recognize the text in images and transform scans to editable and searchable documents. More accurate and faster than before. Together with the Mac OS X Spotlight desktop indexing system ExactScan Pro allows to quickly find and retrieve archived documents.
ExactScan Pro's Barcode recognition brings even more professional AutoID features to the Mac. During the scan process it can automatically recognize common barcodes and embed their content into the document or use it for the filing destination.
All versions of ExactScan include advanced image processing algorithms, for example the intelligent black/white thresholding and blank page detection can help to decrease storage space required for the archive, while the auto-corp and de-skew can recognize the page and skew for a perfect image representations of the original page.
ExactScan include various other facilities to help organizing the office workflow: It can scan directly to any attached printer and comes with the smart profile preset, such as: Scan 2 PDF, Scan 2 Print (Copy), Scan 2 Email - the user can start right away.
Thanks to the TWAIN compatibility, ExactScan supports even more scanners. Thereby enabling more users to take advantage of the advanced ExactScan features on top of the basic vendor drivers.
The support of AppleScript allows professionals to create dedicated solutions for specific, even difficult workflows and to scan directly into a database.
ExactScan comes with support for many languages (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese, Traditional-Chinese) and works with Apple Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and with 10.7.
ExactScan Pro available here.
ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox. The drivers built into ExactScan allow to use these PC document scanners on a Mac. The software allows to scan with a fingertip, comfortable directly with a press of a button from the scanner hardware as well as offering an intuitive user interface. ExactCODE continues to provide automated and intelligent document scanning for the Macintosh.
Abroad or in a workgroup: ExactScan's built-in scanner drivers cover the whole range, from Visioneer's portable RoadWarrior to dependable workgroup scanners from Xerox, Visioneer, Kodak, and Avision. ExactScan is the universal Mac solutions everywhere. It allow for easy scanning of business cards, bills and receipts and ExactScan Pro's built-in OCR can directly save them as searchable PDFs.
With the built-in OCR ExactScan Pro allows recognize the text in images and transform scans to editable and searchable documents. More accurate and faster than before. Together with the Mac OS X Spotlight desktop indexing system ExactScan Pro allows to quickly find and retrieve archived documents.
ExactScan Pro's Barcode recognition brings even more professional AutoID features to the Mac. During the scan process it can automatically recognize common barcodes and embed their content into the document or use it for the filing destination.
All versions of ExactScan include advanced image processing algorithms, for example the intelligent black/white thresholding and blank page detection can help to decrease storage space required for the archive, while the auto-corp and de-skew can recognize the page and skew for a perfect image representations of the original page.
ExactScan include various other facilities to help organizing the office workflow: It can scan directly to any attached printer and comes with the smart profile preset, such as: Scan 2 PDF, Scan 2 Print (Copy), Scan 2 Email - the user can start right away.
Thanks to the TWAIN compatibility, ExactScan supports even more scanners. Thereby enabling more users to take advantage of the advanced ExactScan features on top of the basic vendor drivers.
The support of AppleScript allows professionals to create dedicated solutions for specific, even difficult workflows and to scan directly into a database.
ExactScan comes with support for many languages (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese, Traditional-Chinese) and works with Apple Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and with 10.7.
ExactScan Pro available here.
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ParisP reviewed on 27 Apr 2012
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ptremblay reviewed on 20 Apr 2012
Bottom line, it works ok but I think the developers need to improve the way we select the source. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
The menu ExactScan > Select a scanner... does not work all the time.
I liked it overall because it is simple, intuitive and it allows you to be very fancy on the options available to you. With Image Capture (which you have few controls over the options) created a color image of 28 MB compared with ExactScan 2 which allowed me to change the color settings, I could create the same file in 891 KB.
Big difference and about the same quality (OCR wise).
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However Twain Sane does work. Here a pic of that interface within Image Capture: [IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/2z5lt9c.jpg[/IMG]
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Xplicit reviewed on 22 Nov 2010
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VueScan ( $40 ) with it's twice weekly updates is OK and a third of the
price of ExactScan, not really a bargain but still a lot less than the
amazingly exorbitant price of $115 that ExactScan are asking.
My question would be why is this software so damn expensive ?
If developers want an easy app to throw together, scanner software
seems to be at the very bottom of the pile. ExactScan works and
works well. If it were $10-15 it would be a killer application that
every Mac user with a scanner would own. Yet the developers want
it to remain a niche tool, and that is a great pity.
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Andu reviewed on 30 Jan 2010
buggy (app needs restart every now and then, e.g. when "scan" button disapears
misterious error-windows, that tell nothing what the error is about or what to change (german system)
no help-menu
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Flowerking reviewed on 30 Nov 2009
As I also tried VueScan I don't understand, why some of you insist that the VueScan would support more scanners - I argue the converse! Funny that nobody says which scanner exactly would not be supported. *confused*
In addition I do like the usability (look and feel) and results of ExactScan much more. Try out the optimization tools! Thumps up!
Strong buy!
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Pony reviewed on 26 Sep 2009
Whilst this software makes a great replacement, its $115 price tag is just insane. I'll stick with the clunky interface provided by Brother.
Its obviously not aimed at the home market, unless you like throwing $115 to replace software you got for free with your scanner.
I bought the Brother mainly as a fax machine and think its price tag was around the price of this app.....
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