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DESCRIPTION
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 scanners is available here.
The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.
You can improve your Optical Character Recognition (OCR) results if you download a dictionary containing common US English, French, Dutch and UK English words. Put this file (vuedict.dat) in the same directory as the VueScan program. You can choose the language using the "Output|OCR text language" option.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 8.5.18:
- Fixed problem with occasional crashes when changing frames
- Fixed problem with some networked Canon scanners
- Fixed problem with long lamp warmup with some Avision and HP scanners
- If 'Output | Printed size' set to 'Manual', also use for PDF paper size
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| VueScan User Reviews (369 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 10 2009 |
JAN13 My dear friends, The developer of this splendid software, VueScan 8.5.12. should be nominated for THE NOBEL PRICE !!! Is there anything which should be said ? NO! VueScan 8.5.12. ROCKS !!!
(Version 8.5.12) | |
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 | Apr 15 2009 |
HERVé 5 I just upgraded from 8.5.08 to 8.5.10. Indeed autoupdate would definitely be beneficial.
(Version 8.5.10) | |
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| Mar 22 2009 |
22DUKE good software but frequent updates without automatic update engine are a big let down for me. Developer why not move with the times and implement sparkl?
(Version 8.5.08) | |
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| May 2 2009 |
FONGD I sent the developer a request for an auto-update capability and he wrote back that it's on his to-do list but that he hasn't had the time to do it. My guess is he wants something that'll work on the Mac, Windows and Linux versions he offers and as nice as Sparkle is, it's Mac only.
(Version 8.5.11) | |
| May 8 2009 |
ILGAZ Did you have any bugs fixed based on _your_ configuration on this release? That is the issue. If you are a professional (the real market of vuescan), you won't want to have downtime or risks associated with a bugfix release which has nothing to do with _your_ configuration and workflow. Of course, times has changed and Leopard users may easily downgrade (via TM, if enabled) if problems occur but it would be real waste of bandwidth and downtime for a Canon user getting updates for a raw/pro camera etc.
(Version 8.5.12) | |
| Mar 10 2009 |
STRIDER72 An excellent program. I just wish the author would integrate Sparkle Updates or somesuch, so we don't have to manually install the frequent updates.
(Version 8.5.06) | |
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| Mar 20 2009 |
ETJ Nice idea but not likely to happen. As I understand things, the same code base is used for Mac, Windows and Linux. Hence the Mac code is not using Cocoa frameworks, but the older Carbon model. Sparkle is a Cocoa based system.
(Version 8.5.08) | |
| Mar 9 2009 |
PHOTOBOYDC We started using VueScan Pro version instead of SilverFast with a flatbed Epson 1680 to scan sheet film because it was so much faster, although cruder in its interface. It did not take long, however, to see insurmountable quality problems in the scans...lots of grain, and not too sharp, and rather abrupt roll-off in transitions from light to dark. Several days of back and forth with the developer did not solve the problem. We did side by side comparisons with VueScan and Silverfast and the difference is, unfortunately, instantly obvious (if someone tells me how to post jpeg examples in this forum I'll be happy to post the comparison). There is also the problem of very limited control of the curve; you are given two points of control versus perhaps six with SilverFast. It's obvious there are a lot of happy VueScan users out there, but if you are a serious photographer making large, sharp prints, or if you want really accurate control of the contrast curve, this software may not be for you.
(Version 8.5.06) | |
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| Mar 10 2009 |
STRIDER72 I would guess it's a problem between Vuescan and that particular model of scanner. FYI -- the way to post images is to put them up on the web somewhere (Flickr maybe?) and post a link.
(Version 8.5.06) | |
| Apr 25 2009 |
SATYRICA Lazy and becoming less and less "mac-like"...
(Version 8.5.11) | |
| Feb 25 2009 |
JAN13 This application which I do use for quite a time is INDISPENSABLE. Works absolutely super but most important it has awesome tech. support from developer !
(Version 8.5.04) | |
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 | Dec 13 2008 |
ILGAZ http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/free_upgrade_to_vuescan_85_to_celebrate_10_year_anniversary/ Vuescan 8.5 is a free upgrade for non pro license holders regardless of when you bought it. Mr. Hamrick does it to celebrate its 10th birthday. Don't forget to thank him ;)
(Version 8.5) | |
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| Nov 15 2008 |
VERYCARLA I like the fact it supports my ancient-but-still functional CanoScan FB630UI, but can someone tell me where the descreen option is hiding? I scanned a CD cover to test the app, and it left obvious banding across the image, which looked good otherwise. Given the wealth of options and settings, I really hope descreening was not omitted, and that I just overlooked it.
(Version 8.4.95) | |
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| Nov 15 2008 |
JCRAIG Set Input | Media to Magazine and you'll see the Descreen option appear.
(Version 8.4.95) | |
| Nov 5 2008 |
JAMUS Great app for those of us who still have some older scanners that work fine for what they are used for, but the companies that made them gave up writing updated apps and drivers. The interface is a little wacky, but you get used to it easily enough and it works great. Two thumbs up!
(Version 8.4.94) | |
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 | Nov 5 2008 |
SYNCHROM I don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding this unusably slow. The preview and scan happens in a reasonable time, but it's taking over an hour to save or print an A4 1200dpi greyscale scan of 39Mb. It's not like I'm short of capacity - this is an 8-core Mac Pro with 10Gb RAM and RAID! Is it that the watermarking process of the demo version is horribly slow? If so, it doesn't bode well for any other image processing functions.
(Version 8.4.94) | |
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| Apr 27 2009 |
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