Publisher's Description
From Hamrick Software:
VueScan is a new scanning utility that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance.
It only takes a few minutes to download a free trial version of VueScan. It is easy to install, changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
What's new in this version:
- Small improvements to 'Guide me" mode
- Improved infrared cleaning
- Fixed problem with some Avision scanners
- Fixed problem with HP 5470
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4.2 starsout of 62 votes
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"GREAT software"
Version: VueScan 9.0.79
Pros
does what it claims it does
Cons
none that I can find
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"Should not be popping as Free on Google"
Version: VueScan 9.0.71
Pros
It works with lots of old scanners.
Cons
Not free. Being misrepresented,
Summary
The price isn't bad, but it's a long way from free, yet it's showing up all over the place as free software. That's the fault of places like CNet. With the trial, you can find out if it works with your scanner, but that's it. You get no usable scans, thnks to watermark.
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"When Canon abandons you, Vue Scan to the rescue"
Version: VueScan 9.0.68
Pros
Straightforward and functional
Works well with 64 bit Windows 7
Saves having to buy a new scanner when Canon lets you downCons
Not very pretty interface, but it works!
Fiddly to nominate file allocationSummary
Excellent quality output, reliable every time.
I certainly won't be buying Canon in future, they just dump the product on you and offer no subsequent support/updates for drivers.
Vue Scan has saved me from having to throw my current scanner out, after Canon failed to provide drivers for their LIDE20. (Surely I am not the only one using Windows 7 64 bit?) -
"WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER!!!!!"
Version: VueScan 9.0.63
Pros
Looks like a really nice program and would be great if it actually worked
Cons
Doesn't work on my iMac
Summary
I purchased the program and it worked great a few times and then stopped working. I emailed Ed Hamrick who responded quickly. We exchanged a few emails over a few days and then he stopped writing back. I wrote again 6 days later saying that if he didn't have any other ideas to get it working that I'd like a refund. Another 5 days goes by and I suggest that I was going to have to do a charge back since he is ignoring me. He wrote back and said he didn't mind me getting a refund but that I was going to have to "work" for it. Worst customer service ever!!!!
Ed now tells me that since I mentioned the word "refund" in an email that he just blindly deleted it and decided never to respond to me again. Now that's some customer service there. Buyer beware.
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"Classic "knows the code personally" product support"
Version: VueScan 9.0.61
Pros
I've been programming since 1980 or so and know what it means to have a product this feature rich, this user-tuneable, that the originator still has full hands-on knowledge of. I've experienced his rapid-response programming fixes for odd things I've run into with both old and brand-new scanners, and for oddball one-in-a-million kind of scanning tasks. I like it.
Cons
I'm thinking, I'm thinking....Can't come up with a complaint yet. I also own the latest ReadIris and ABBY, Nuance Paperport 12, and yet I find VueScan does what I need the fastest, and most accurately. It isn't ALWAYS what I end up using, but if it was the only tool I had for digitizing documents and old photos, doing OCR on a variety of things, I would not be crippled up....
Summary
I would buy it again. The best thing I can say about *anything* I've ever purchased - would I do it again? Yep.
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"Outstanding software. Really works great"
Version: VueScan 9.0.60
Pros
Easy, reliable and many features
Cons
No bad remarks can I think of
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"Works just fine"
Version: VueScan 9.0.50
Pros
Enabled my to continue using my scanner with a 64 bit OS
Cons
Small issue with having to remember to set the name of the file before scanning and saving.
Summary
While not quite as convenient, it solves the problem of no 64 bit drivers for my Epson scanner.
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"It works-it's that simple!"
Version: VueScan 9.0.49
Pros
Fill the breach long after manufacturers abandon their customers through neglect of their software and drivers.
Cons
None. Vue Scan's fee is a small price to pay vs. recycling your current scanner.
Summary
If you love your current scanner but it no longer works, give VueSan the opportunity to rescue it and you.
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"Solved filmscanner MinoltaDimage Scan Elite5400"
Version: VueScan 9.0.49
Pros
Really exc/spect product to supportdiscontinued filmscanner, which has no support. Used in XPPro 64-bit problem then in Vista Ult 64-bit and now in win7 Ult 64-bit.
After installing Vuescan I can install and use original Minolta software from 2007.Cons
Nothing, works fine.
Summary
This is really great that this kind of cross platform sw for scanners exists and somebody is maintaining this.
This is really for need.
It tends to be so that many manufacturers give up very good quality products or comapnies are becoming inoperatonal like Konica/Minolta in this line of products. -
"A very functional scanner controller."
Version: VueScan 9.0.37
Pros
Easy interface.
Gives no errors.
Good automatic colour balance when scanning colour negatives.Cons
None that I have found.
Summary
I bought VueScan to allow me to continue using a Microtek ArtixScan 4000tf with Win 7. (Microtek have not updated the drivers.) I found Vuescan to be simpler and the automatic colour balance to function much more reliably than the original software, especially when svcanning colour negative material.
I also use it with a Brother MFC-7340 and find it excellent with that as well.
Great software if you have a scanner that is no longer supported by the manufacturer as there are a large number of legacy hardware drivers for it.
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