VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.
Why should you use VueScan?
Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan.
Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration.
Powerful - dozens of advanced options.
Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being more...
VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.
Why should you use VueScan?
Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan.
Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration.
Powerful - dozens of advanced options.
Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being scanned (most scanner software won't let you work with one image while another is being scanned).
Simple to install - installing VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
Award winning - 2002 "Best Utility", Mac Addict Magazine.
The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.
Version 9.4.53:
Added support for 7 new HP scanners
ENVY 5640
ENVY 5660
ENVY 7640
ENVY 8000
LaserJet Pro MFP M225dn
Officejet 5740
Officejet 8040
I've positively rated VueScan before. I'm doing it again for two reasons. I have recently purchased a SnapScan iX500EE (Evernote Edition) and had trouble getting VueScan to recognize it. I emailed Ed and thoughtfully over a period of two days of prompt back and forth emails the problem was solved. It was my configuration, not a VueScan problem. But I especially want to applaud the prompt, courteous and helpful individual response from Ed. I've occasionally in the past had to seek his help and he is always there for is users. Ed is a refreshing contrast to the big software developers with tier one, two and three support systems, and bureaucracies. My rating of the software is 5 stars. More importantly my rating of Ed is 5 stars!
For all practical matters, I deem VueScan to be in the category of another "Corner Of The Market" very overpriced/highly overrated piece of software. While it does what it says, I find the quality it produces to be sorely lacking at best. When compared to the output achieved by the Twain drivers issued by my scanners original manufacturer, there is simply NO comparison quality wise. And the mint Power Mac G4 MDD only cost me $55 when I bought it several years ago for exactly these types of instances. Overall I find Vuescan a far lessor of the many options/alternatives available when a given scanner is no longer supported in Mavericks.
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