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I've been using VueScan for years and it's great. Not sure why so many naysayers. My main use case for VueScan is scanning lots of pages in a document while per
by FooBarWidget 5y ago
I've been using VueScan for years and it's great. Not sure why so many naysayers. My main use case for VueScan is scanning lots of pages in a document while performing necessary cropping and rotation and color correction on each page, and possibly saving the end result in a multi-page PDF.
The builtin scanner in macOS allows either previewing, or scanning into a file, but it can't save the preview into a file. Previwing is crucial in order to determine what to crop or rotate, but scanning another time after the preview wastes a lot of time.
The builtin scanner can rotate, but it can't preview the rotation. It has limited color correction capability (which is important for making black & white documents... more black & white, and well-readable). It can't save to multi page PDF. It can't tweak JPEG quality. It can't preview in color but save in black & white.
And OCR. Damn, so nice. It can generate PDFs with selectable and searchable text!
VueScan can do all of that. Strongly recommended if you need to scan more than a few pages on a regular basis. Well worth the price tag.
The only downside is that its UI is a bit complicated, with lots of settings. It should be regarded a power user tool.
When I buy furniture or another appliance, I throw away the paper manual and store the digitally scanned version. It's hard to find paper documents: there are too many. In comparison, finding digital documents is trivial.
- anonymousiam 5y agoI purchased a copy when Windows 7 did not support my HP ScanJet 2100c. The 25-year-old scanner was built to a higher quality standard than current products, and is still working great.
- thanatos519 5y ago> The only downside is that its UI is a bit complicated, with lots of settings. It should be regarded a power user tool. That's not a downside for me. I always found bundled scanner software to be an oversimplified nightmare, though admittedly I haven't seen any for 20 years thanks to VueScan.
- wingi 5y agoIt is easy, works with old scanner and I am happy with that UI!
- jbverschoor 5y agoI used to use vueprint as my go-to image viewer on windows. VueScan is pretty good. No drivers, OCR works well. The UI is clunky and kind of buggy sometimes, but scanning works really well (I did have problems with a specific scanner which became unstable. Could be the MFP itself though)
- clsec 5y agoI purchased both VuePrint and VueScan shortly after they came out in 1998. At the time I found both to be invaluable tools, especially VueScan. I used flatbed scanners both at work and home at the time and the VueScan GUI was far superior to any other scanning software available at the time.
- cbmuser 5y agoI agree, VueScan is awesome. Highly recommended for anyone using a scanner.
- rgacote 5y agoHave two copies, one for each ScanSnap S510M connected to a Mac. It simply keeps working.