VueScan

VueScan 9.8

I've been using VueScan for a few years now and it's been an absolute godsend

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Latest version 9.8.46
Developer Hamrick Software
Shareware $39.95
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I've been using VueScan for a few years now and it's been an absolute godsend. It's saved me so much time and hassle, and it's incredibly easy to use. Not only can I scan multiple images at once, but I can also customize the compression, paper size, and output format. The ability to save scans as text, searchable PDF, and RTF files is also really useful. Highly recommend VueScan!

VueScan can help you get images from images from a scanner. The application is compatible with many models of scanners, even those which are no longer supported in recent Windows versions. Good news is that this tool also allows you to post-process the image. Moreover, the program supports saving pictures in various formats, and it even lets you keep the original raw data for later use. In this regard, it provides the advantage of exporting the same input data in multiple formats in a single operation.

One thing that I always appreciate from a tool of this kind is the ability to recognize text, so I am glad that VueScan allows exporting scans as text, searchable PDF and RTF. However, the OCR is not always successful, particularly when the original text is formatted in columns. Another valuable feature is multi-exposure, which consists of performing a double scan with different exposure levels each time so that the dynamic range of your scanner is amplified. Besides, it lets you calibrate colors to make the resulting image as similar to the original as possible. More

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Pedro Castro
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Pros

  • Compatible with many models of scanners
  • Post-processing features
  • Multiple output formats
  • Optical character recognition
  • Exports to multiple formats in a single operation
  • Multi-exposure
  • Color calibration

Cons

  • OCR results are not always accurate

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The instructions on this page are clearly out-of-date: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc4.htm.

For one thing, there is NO tick box for "PDF multi page" It's a pop-up choice list.
Scan does NOT work. Preview does.
There is NO "Last Page" option on the File menu.
The screen shots are from Windows, but I can live with that.

This used to work for me. Not only was there a Last Page option on the file menu, there was a clickable Last Page command at the bottom of the input page. What gives?
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