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. Its very easy to use, and also has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.
VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function. You can purchase VueScan at any time and instantly get a serial number that disables image watermarking.
Pros: I like ummm, ahhh, I'm afraid I can't come up with anything other than the author did add the "Doc Feeder" support into his software for me for the Epson V500, which shows up only when you choose the "advanced" settings of the software.
Cons: Hangs up scanning, often requiring reboot, responds slowly, won't save settings properly,won't do OCR properly (requires reboot) before it will start operating again. Responds to changes in settings only slowly (10 - 20 seconds some times)
Summary: Documentation is not sufficient to lean how to operate properly(the author will sometimes respond with the solution/clever use of a setting option that is totally non-intuitive. The OCR fails completely if there is handwriting on page - this s... read more >>