VueScan Standard Edition includes free upgrades to new versions of the software for one year. Still, VueScan offers an impressive depth of features and controls, and the quality of the images or text you can get with them is potentially quite high–once you gain control over all the parameters and options.įor even more control over color accuracy and quality, you might want to check out VueScan’s Professional Edition ($80), which supports ICC profiles and color spaces, IT8 color calibration of your scanner, as well as scanning to RAW files and unlimited free upgrades to new versions. Unfortunately, the Advanced interface doesn’t always conform to standards set by other scanner software over the years, and understanding the nomenclature can be as much a challenge to experienced users as novices. If you’re scanning several originals at once, the Multi-Crop function can define the number of separate files to create, using manual or auto controls. For instance, you can set precise scan and preview resolutions and dimensions, edit color and brightness with a variety of different sliders and checkmark options, choose among four filters (Restore Colors, Restore Fading, Grain Reduction and Sharpen), and select file format (JPEG, TIFF, PDF or OCR Text File).
It’s broken up into six tabs–Input, Crop, Filter, Color, Output and Preferences–each of which has a bevy of controls. Whereas “Guide Me” does a decent job with default settings, the Advanced interface gives you all the tools for tweaking the scan to your heart’s content. The last step is the final scan, which you are prompted to save to your computer. The wizard then instructs you to place the original on the scanner, and it creates a preview, which you may rotate, crop manually or have the software do an auto crop. And Scan Quality is defined by output: E-mail, Web, Print, Edit, or Archive. Media may be Color Photo, B&W Photo, Line Art, Text, Magazine or Newspaper.
Then, you choose between using the scanner as a Flatbed (for prints) or Transparency (for slides).
The first window defines the purpose of your scan: Scan to File or Copy to Printer.
Guide Me is a wizard that steps you through the choices you need to make for a basic, unedited scan. VueScan Standard offers two interfaces: “Guide Me” and Advanced.
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