VueScan is an application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that is compatible with over 2900 scanners from 35 scanner manufacturers. If your scanner is no longer supported by your Operating System, or you want more advanced features, download VueScan today.
There's more technical information about VueScan's support for your scanner at the bottom of this page.
We built VueScan so that two completely different types of users can use it. Beginners only need to run VueScan and press the 'Scan' button, and can press the 'More' button to use basic options. Pro users can press the 'Advanced' button to unlock powerful features to have complete control over your scans.
VueScan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. It can also recognize text using OCR and create multi-page pdfs using both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders.
| Flatbed Scanning: | Yes |
| Film Scanning: | Yes |
| Infrared lamp: | Yes |
| Document Feeder: | No |
| Windows: | Yes |
| Mac: | Yes |
| Linux: | Yes |
| USB: | Yes |
| SCSI: | No |
| Firewire: | No |
| Network: | No |
| USB Vendor ID: | 04a9 |
| USB Product ID: | 1901 |
| Optical DPI: | 4800 |

VueScan works with the Canon 8800F on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms.
It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass.
Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light.
If you're using Windows and you've installed a Canon driver, VueScan's built-in drivers won't conflict with this. If you haven't installed a Windows driver for this scanner, VueScan will automatically install a driver.
You can use this scanner on Mac OS X and Linux without installing any other software.
On Linux, you need to set up libusb device protections.