VueScan 9.5

A scanning suite with post-processing features, including OCR
3.8 
Rating
Your vote:
Latest version:
9.8.11 See all
Developer:
Screenshots
1 / 17
Awards (10)
Show all awards
Software Informer Editor Rating 4 Software Informer Virus Free award
Download
9 MB

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.

From my point of view, the best advantage of VueScan is that it allows you to prolong the life of old scanners whose developers stopped releasing new drivers. The product can be tried without any restrictions, except that it leaves an undesired watermark. There are two editions: Standard and Professional. The latter has the same basic features but scans films and has additional color adjustment options.

PC Senior editor
Pedro Castro
Editor rating:
rating

Review summary

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

Comments (1)

3.8
Rating
32 votes
5 stars
19
4 stars
2
3 stars
3
2 stars
3
1 stars
5
User

Your vote:

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The instructions on this page are clearly out-of-date: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc4.htm.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

Was it helpful?  yes(0) no(0) | Reply

Related software

Easy Photo Scan
Easy Photo Scan
Free
rating

Epson Easy Photo Scan allows you to easily scan your originals using EPSON Scan.

Fuji Xerox Network Scanner Utility2
Fuji Xerox Network Scanner
Free
rating

This is a scanner tool used to import scanned images from the Fuji Xerox scanner

Xerox Network Scanner Utility2
Xerox Network Scanner Utility2
Free
rating

Network Scanner access and import scanned documents from Xerox Machines

DigitizeIt
DigitizeIt
rating

Digitize a scanned graph or chart into (x, y)-data.

Multi-Page TIFF Editor
Multi-Page TIFF Editor
rating

Multi-Page TIFF Editor it is a tool to work with documents in TIFF format.

Related suggestions

Tags

Scan tool Scan to PDF Digital cameras Scanner to TIFF Scanner to text Export as raw Multi-exposure scan Scanner to PDF Scan and convert Flatbed scanner