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VueScan for Mac

Scanner software with advanced features.

$39.96
In English
4.1
Based on 363 user rates

VueScan overview

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.

Advantages:
  • 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.

The list of supported scanners is available here.

What’s new in version 9.8.41

  • Improved detection of networked scanners on macOS
  • Changed default file name to ‘YYYY-MM-DD-0001+.xxx’
  • Faster changing from one scanner to another with ‘Input | Source’
  • Improved update of skew grid when adjusting skew
  • Improved ‘Input | Auto repeat’
  • Fixed problem with crashes when installing Photoshop plugin on macOS
  • Fixed problem with display not updating when making small changes to cropping or skew
  • Restored ‘Help | Uninstall’ to Windows version
  • Changed location of temp files on Linux from /tmp to $HOME/.cache (more free space)
View older VueScan versions

VueScan for Mac

$39.96
In English
Version 9.8.41

What users say about VueScan

Macinman
By Macinman on May 20 2024 for v.9.8.33

Value: 5.0

just a star rating to go with my comment from yesterday I selected price for the dislike options because I had to select at least one item to post. However, I think for what the app does, the pricing is very reasonable.

Other user ratings:

Ease of use | 5.0
Features | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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VueScan qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
4.5
Features
5.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
4.5

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4.1

(690 Reviews of VueScan)

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OhEssex
OhEssex
Nov 28 2024
9.8.39
0.0
Nov 28 2024
0.0
Version: 9.8.39
I've heard about VueScan for many years now, and was thinking about buying a scanner and VueScan to use it with. I was floored when I went to the website to purchase it - it's not the $40 shown on this website, but instead it's now a subscription that'll cost you $20/mo or a $150 for a 1-time purchase! OUCH!! I don't ever do subscriptions and $150 is just way, way too steep for a casual user like me. So I'm looking elsewhere as a result.
Holypoly
Holypoly
Jul 2 2024
9.8.34
5.0
Jul 2 2024
5.0
Version: 9.8.34
Another update to VueScan has been released on July 1. New in 9.8.35, as per the developer: Significantly Improved OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Upgraded from Tesseract 3 to Tesseract 5 Much better accuracy of text recognition Built-in support for five languages English Spanish German French Italian Support for 34 different languages Enabled OCR in Standard Edition and trial version Significantly improved ‘Output | OCR text RTF format’ The .rtf files can be edited by many text editors Page size of scan is used
Holypoly
Holypoly
Jun 27 2024
9.8.33
5.0
Jun 27 2024
5.0
Version: 9.8.33
A new version is out as for today. Here's the developer's release notes: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm
Macinman
Macinman
May 20 2024
9.8.33
0.0
May 20 2024
0.0
Version: 9.8.33
I really appreciate VueScan even more than I did when first tried it for being cross platform. In just a few months my late 2015, 27" iMac will officially be out of support from Apple as that's when Monterey support is set to end, and it's the last officially supported OS this iMac can run. So, I've decided to switch to Linux and VueScan is natively supported on Linux, so that's one more program I paid for that I won't have to give up with the switch.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 15 2023
9.8.12
2.0
Jul 15 2023
2.0
Version: 9.8.12
I have Epson Perfection V37, and it has more advanced features than VS.
Holypoly
Holypoly
Nov 8 2024
9.8.39
5.0
Nov 8 2024
5.0
Version: 9.8.39
mo dape
mo dape
Oct 30 2023
9.8.20
5.0
Oct 30 2023
5.0
Version: 9.8.20
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 15 2023
9.8.12
2.0
Jul 15 2023
2.0
Version: 9.8.12
A-w
A-w
Jul 5 2023
9.8.10
1.0
Jul 5 2023
1.0
Version: 9.8.10
rossigio86
rossigio86
May 30 2023
9.8.03
5.0
May 30 2023
5.0
Version: 9.8.03
RedMSP
RedMSP
May 6 2023
9.7.99
1.0
May 6 2023
1.0
Version: 9.7.99
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Mar 7 2023
9.7.99
5.0
Mar 7 2023
5.0
Version: 9.7.99
Electronman
Electronman
Mar 22 2022
9.7.82
5.0
Mar 22 2022
5.0
Version: 9.7.82
LKN G-Man
LKN G-Man
Mar 11 2022
9.7.80
5.0
Mar 11 2022
5.0
Version: 9.7.80
davyboy
davyboy
Jan 17 2022
9.7.75
5.0
Jan 17 2022
5.0
Version: 9.7.75
Dannymontani
Dannymontani
Oct 13 2021
9.7.67
5.0
Oct 13 2021
5.0
Version: 9.7.67
ronald-1**
ronald-1**
Jul 13 2021
9.7.59
4.0
Jul 13 2021
4.0
Version: 9.7.59
Giosette
Giosette
Jul 12 2021
9.7.59
5.0
Jul 12 2021
5.0
Version: 9.7.59
vincentwei1024
vincentwei1024
May 25 2021
9.7.55
5.0
May 25 2021
5.0
Version: 9.7.55
Macsmurf
Macsmurf
May 13 2021
9.7.54
5.0
May 13 2021
5.0
Version: 9.7.54
Malby
Malby
Jan 12 2021
2.0
Jan 12 2021
2.0
Version: null
Almana
Almana
Sep 15 2020
5.0
Sep 15 2020
5.0
Version: null
neal-11
neal-11
Jul 23 2020
1.0
Jul 23 2020
1.0
Version: null
markxt
markxt
Jun 20 2020
2.0
Jun 20 2020
2.0
Version: null
BillF5312
BillF5312
Jun 19 2020
1.0
Jun 19 2020
1.0
Version: null
mmreview-1
mmreview-1
Jun 8 2020
5.0
Jun 8 2020
5.0
Version: null
Sqrl007
Sqrl007
May 5 2020
5.0
May 5 2020
5.0
Version: null
craigagardner
craigagardner
Mar 26 2020
1.0
Mar 26 2020
1.0
Version: null
jbacon
jbacon
Jan 22 2020
5.0
Jan 22 2020
5.0
Version: null
hdrmerl
hdrmerl
Jan 14 2020
5.0
Jan 14 2020
5.0
Version: null
pl-svn
pl-svn
Jan 13 2020
3.0
Jan 13 2020
3.0
Version: null
MJVS
MJVS
Dec 30 2019
5.0
Dec 30 2019
5.0
Version: null
baxsur
baxsur
Dec 27 2019
5.0
Dec 27 2019
5.0
Version: null
anonymous-swordtail-5987
Dec 24 2019
5.0
Version: null
dwp-1
dwp-1
Dec 23 2019
5.0
Dec 23 2019
5.0
Version: null
mkkarnold
mkkarnold
Dec 19 2019
5.0
Dec 19 2019
5.0
Version: null
Frankp
Frankp
Dec 12 2019
5.0
Dec 12 2019
5.0
Version: null
SamHoss48
SamHoss48
Nov 30 2019
5.0
Nov 30 2019
5.0
Version: null
Maddogiam66
Maddogiam66
Nov 29 2019
4.0
Nov 29 2019
4.0
Version: null
Dovidls
Dovidls
Nov 15 2019
5.0
Nov 15 2019
5.0
Version: null
dpdelly
dpdelly
Oct 17 2019
2.0
Oct 17 2019
2.0
Version: null
Radus
Radus
Oct 3 2019
5.0
Oct 3 2019
5.0
Version: null
Macmuser
Macmuser
Aug 29 2019
3.0
Aug 29 2019
3.0
Version: null
drnoel
drnoel
Aug 19 2019
0.5
Aug 19 2019
0.5
Version: null
glrooney
glrooney
Apr 14 2019
1.0
Apr 14 2019
1.0
Version: null