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 9.8.55
- Improved speed of ‘Filter | Colorize’ when Machine Learning accelerator available.
- Uses the macOS Core ML subsystem on macOS 10.15 and later.
- Uses the Windows WinML runtime on Windows 11 24H2 and later.
- Improved quality of scans when using ‘Input | Auto skew’ or ‘Crop | Skew’
- Uses bicubic interpolation instead of bilinear interpolation.
- More accurate handling of edges of crop box.
- Improved accuracy of some Nikon scanners, especially when deskewing.
- CoolScan 5000 ED
- CoolScan 8000 ED
- CoolScan 9000 ED
- Improved use of ‘Crop | Border (%)’ when already at the edge of a scan.
- Improved use of arrow keys to move a crop box.
- Moves crop box by 1 pixel when shift key not pressed.
- Moves crop box by 10 pixels when shift key is pressed.
- Behaves the same as Photoshop and many other programs.
- Improved disabling of plugin libraries after a crashed plugin.
- On first crash, a file named vuescan_trouble.xxx is created.
- On repeated crash, a file named vuescan_disable.xxx is created.
- If vuescan_disable.xxx is detected on startup, plugin isn’t used.
- Using ‘File | Default options’ or ‘Scanner | Find scanners’ re-enables all plugins.
- Improved calibration of PrimeFilm 120 on Windows and macOS when CyberViewX installed.
- Fixed problems with some Canon DR-series scanners.
- Fixed problem with duplex scanning on HP Officejet 9010
- Added support for Brother MFC-J6959DW
- Added support for Brother MFC-J7700CDW
VueScan for Mac
$26.21
In English
Version 9.8.55
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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Feb 13, 2025
Version: 9.8.44
Last version compatible with MacOSX 10.10 and 10.11 is 9.8.37.
Version 9.8.38 and later requires MacOSX Sierra (10.12) or later, even though info on developers webpage remains to be updated.
MacUpdate folks, please update anyway 🙂.
Dec 26, 2024
Version: 9.8.42
Developer now offers a ONE-time purchase for 3 editions: Basic $20, Standard $40, Professional $100.
Clearly shows under ONE-Time purchase. Another option who likes it - monthly payment instead of 1-time purchase. But why would anyone use "monthly payments" ???
Nov 28, 2024
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.
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
