VueScan for Mac
Scanner software with advanced features.
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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 9.8.39
- Integrated wxWidgets 3.2.6 - improved user interface
- Removed ‘Prefs | Enable spin buttons’ (problems with ARM64 builds and gtk3 builds)
- Fixed problem with ‘Output | PDF OCR test’ with ‘Input | Media’ set to ‘Color’ or ‘Color text’
- Fixed problem with saving files and not auto-incrementing file name
- Fixed problem with ‘Color | Pixel colors’
VueScan for Mac
$39.96
In English
Version 9.8.39
What users say about VueScan
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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Jul 2 2024
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
Jun 27 2024
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
May 20 2024
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.
Jul 15 2023
Version: 9.8.12
I have Epson Perfection V37, and it has more advanced features than VS.
Jul 10 2023
Version: 9.8.11
Vuescan gets worse with every release. The new automatic cropping and straightening of photos feature is not really ready for prime time. But manual cropping has stopped working completely. I'm back to some old version now where at least manual cropping works. Please don't add Machine Learning (ML) crap. Vuescan is just scanning software where the end user needs to be in control. Any magic voodoo is not needed. Instead I suggest to fix the hilarious UI and the bugs around saving options...
