VueScan Newsletter - April 2024

Hello and Welcome!

At the risk of sounding old, it always amazes us how fast time goes. Here in the northern hemisphere, there are definite signs of Spring in the air – which always makes us feel better as new life appears and our days get longer. But wherever you are in the world, we hope that you are enjoying the season that you are in.

Anyway – back to business!

Firstly, thank you very much for responding to our request for details on your scanning projects. Many of you have been in contact with us and it has been fascinating to learn about your work. We will feature these over the next few months here – so look out for these.

If you would still like to tell us about your projects so we can share them with other users – please do so! And, as always, thank you so much for your comments and suggestions on how we can continually improve VueScan.

If you’ve had a positive experience with VueScan, we would be very grateful if you could take a moment to share your thoughts by leaving a review on Trustpilot, Facebook or another review site. Your feedback not only helps others discover VueScan, but also allows us to continuously improve our product. Thank you for your support! (And thank you for telling your friends and colleagues about us.)

Remember you can contact us for technical support (we need a Problem Report) and any general enquiries, suggestions, or feedback here

Every submission is read and answered by Ed and David themselves. One reason we think VueScan is so good is because of 25 years of customer suggestions and bug reports – and our in-boxes of problem reports is often down to only 2 or 3 problems.

Thank you for being part of the VueScan community and we look forward to hearing from you.

Beverley.

VueScan Updates

Since the last newsletter, we’ve released VueScan 9.8.32, 9.8.31, 9.8.30, 9.8.29, 9.8.28 and 9.8.27.

What’s new in version 9.8.32

  • Improved cropping of some small pages on a flatbed
  • Fixed problem with some Plustek OpticFilm scanners on macOS
  • Improved Input | Auto rotate option
  • Added support for Canon RS40
  • Fixed problem with Epson Perfection V200
  • Added additional resolutions with some Epson scanners
  • Fixed problems with 14 Fujitsu document scanners
    • Fujitsu fi-7160
    • Fujitsu fi-7180
    • Fujitsu fi-7260
    • Fujitsu fi-7280
    • Fujitsu fi-8150
    • Fujitsu fi-8150U
    • Fujitsu fi-8170
    • Fujitsu fi-8190
    • Fujitsu fi-8250
    • Fujitsu fi-8250U
    • Fujitsu fi-8270
    • Fujitsu fi-8290
    • Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500
    • Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M
  • Fixed problems with 6 Canon document scanners
    • Canon DR-150
    • Canon DR-P215
    • Canon P-150
    • Canon P-208
    • Canon P-215
    • Canon R40

What’s new in version 9.8.31

  • Improved quality of deskew for large images
  • Improved scan speed with some eSCL/Mopria scanners
  • Added some Epson model names in other countries
  • Added support for 4 Brother scanners
    • Brother MFC-EX670
    • Brother MFC-L9610CDN
    • Brother MFC-L9630CDN
    • Brother MFC-L9670CDN
  • Fixed problem with Plustek OpticFilm 7500i at 7200 dpi
  • Fixed problem with Plustek OpticFilm 7600i at 7200 dpi
  • Fixed problem with duplex scanning with some Brother scanners
  • Fixed problem when scanning with some WIA scanner drivers

What’s new in version 9.8.30

  • Changed crop box to be more visible
  • Changed zoom so it doesn’t zoom out when rotating
  • Displays positive version of infrared channel when scanning negatives
  • Fixed problem with some types of HP LaserJet scans on Windows
  • Fixed problem with new versions of Plustek OpticFilm scanners
    • Plustek OpticFilm 8100i
    • Plustek OpticFilm 8200i New
    • Plustek OpticFilm 8300i
  • Fixed problem with Canon R40
  • Fixed problem with Brother MFC-L2750DW
  • Fixed problem with Canon 8400F
  • Fixed problem loading options on startup

What’s new in version 9.8.29

  • Added saving/loading multi-crop settings to/from .ini files
  • Remembers multi-crop settings when changing Input | Mode
  • Added new option Grid for Crop | Multi crop
  • Added preliminary support for CZUR scanners
  • Added support for 24 Brother scanners
    • Brother DCP-L5510DN
    • Brother DCP-L5510DW
    • Brother DCP-L5512DN
    • Brother DCP-L5518DN
    • Brother DCP-L5610DN
    • Brother DCP-L5660DN
    • Brother DCP-L5662DN
    • Brother MFC-EX910
    • Brother MFC-EX915DW
    • Brother MFC-L5710DN
    • Brother MFC-L5710DW
    • Brother MFC-L5715DW
    • Brother MFC-L5717DW
    • Brother MFC-L5718DN
    • Brother MFC-L5728DW
    • Brother MFC-L5912DW
    • Brother MFC-L5915DW
    • Brother MFC-L6710DW
    • Brother MFC-L6720DW
    • Brother MFC-L6810DW
    • Brother MFC-L6820DW
    • Brother MFC-L6910DN
    • Brother MFC-L6912DW
    • Brother MFC-L6915DW

What’s new in version 9.8.28

  • Added support for Epson scanners needing a plugin library on M1/M2/M3 Macs
  • Improved support for eSCL scanners from many vendors
  • Improved cropping of smaller pages and receipts
  • Fixed problem with changing Crop | Crop size when multi crop enabled
  • Fixed problem with some Epson document feeders
  • Fixed problem with Epson Perfection V500
  • Fixed problem with installing too many Photoshop plugins on Windows

What’s new in version 9.8.27

  • Fixed problem with manual cropping when restarting VueScan
  • Fixed problem with installing Photoshop plugins
  • Fixed problem with cropping with some HP LaserJet models
  • Fixed problem with some rare crashes
  • Fixed problem with Plustek OpticFilm 7200
  • Fixed problem with Brother MFC-L2750DW
  • Fixed problem with Canon TR4600 document feeder
  • Fixed problem with Canon TS8380 at high resolutions
  • Fixed problem with Epson ES-C320W and Epson ES-C380W
  • Fixed problem with Samsung SL-M377x
  • Added support for 41 Epson scanners
    • Epson AM-C4000
    • Epson AM-C5000
    • Epson AM-C6000
    • Epson DS-C420W
    • Epson DS-C480W
    • Epson EP-715A
    • Epson EP-716A
    • Epson EP-815A
    • Epson EP-816A
    • Epson EP-885A
    • Epson EP-886A
    • Epson EP-M476T
    • Epson ET-2830
    • Epson ET-2840
    • Epson ET-2860
    • Epson ET-2870
    • Epson ET-3840
    • Epson ET-4810
    • Epson EW-056A
    • Epson EW-456A
    • Epson L15180
    • Epson L3550
    • Epson L3560
    • Epson L5590
    • Epson LM-C4000
    • Epson LM-C5000
    • Epson LM-C6000
    • Epson M2050
    • Epson PX-M161T
    • Epson PX-M382F
    • Epson PX-M887F
    • Epson SC-P8500DM
    • Epson SC-T5700DM
    • Epson SC-T7700DM
    • Epson ST-C5000
    • Epson ST-C5500
    • Epson WF-7830
    • Epson WF-C5810
    • Epson WF-M4619
    • Epson WF-M5899
    • Epson XP-3200

Q & A

Ed Hamrick and David Hamrick (VueScan developers) receive all technical enquiries and answer your questions directly.

Q) Something is messed up in VueScan. Either the colors are strange or it’s not writing files I think it should. What should I do?

A) Try using the File | Default options command. This resets all options to their default values and often solves problems with accidental options settings. To do this, click on the word ‘File’ in the menu bar of VueScan then click on the words ‘Default options’ in the list that drops down under the word ‘File’. Then change only one option at a time between scans. This will often diagnose what options settings are the problem.

Q) I have a scanner that’s supported by VueScan that uses WiFi to connect to VueScan. However, VueScan can’t find it. What should I do?

A) First, make sure you aren’t using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), either on your computer or in a router. A VPN will interfere with finding scanners on the network. If VueScan still can’t find your scanner, set Prefs | Network scanners to either eSCL or Manual. If using “eSCL”, set the IP address and experiment with both UDP port 80 and 8080. If using “Manual”, look up the USB Vendor ID and USB Product ID in the supported scanners list and put this info and the IP address into the fields below this. The USB Vendor ID and USB Product ID tell VueScan what kind of scanner is connected at this IP address.

Q) What other interesting things are you and David working on?

A) David is the wizard of machine learning, and he’s continually training them with more data and doing more powerful things with neural networks. David is also going to add support for more scanners on macOS by adding support for scanners that work with Image Capture (and not with VueScan). I hope to work on adding improved OCR support by integrating Tesseract 5.0, along with being the main bug-stomper, which I enjoy.

Customer Projects

A big thank you to Steve for sending this in. Steve publishes The Digitizing Report and has just written a feature about slides and negatives.

Hi!

Saw your call in a recent newsletter for comments on how folks use VueScan - thought you might enjoy this.

“My first stop in what turned out to be an unexpectedly deep dive was just scanning with my existing tools; with any flatbed that has slide backlight, one can do a pretty decent job. Quick shout-out to Ed Hamrick of VueScan - he has single-handedly rescued millions of perfectly good scanners from dumps and thrift-shop shelves, bringing them back to life after computer and scanner manufacturers abandoned them. I first discovered it a decade ago when Apple killed TWAIN, and have never looked back. If you scan, just get it… very worth the $50 or $120 depending on which version fits your needs!”

The whole piece, with a few other mentions, is here:

Just wanted to thank you for keeping this old CanoScan 8800F useful, and I also sometimes run my Microtek ScanMaker i900 (firewire). I also use VueScan to run the Plustek 8200i slide scanner.

A recent twist involved a few hundred 2-1/4 glass-mount Ektachrome slides from the fifties. They were varying degrees of deep red due to that dreadful E2 process. I found that your automatic fading tool works very well with a wide range of these, and it has been a part of the workflow. I prefer to keep the primary image RAW, so after using VueScan to fix it I can’t dig into the extremes of the curve as well, but it just amazes me how well it just knows… and is often the best solution. The image at the end of the story linked above was done entirely in VueScan, and shows the condition of the original slide (1959 E2).

Cheers! Steve

Steven Roberts Harbor Digitizing Friday Harbor, Washington wordy@microship.com

Customer Comment

We read and receive many kind comments from our customers, and we appreciate it very much. We reply to all your emails so please continue to send them in.

Hello Ed and David H

Thank you for this scanner app. It is rare I would praise something as mundane as a scanner app BUT flipping HP had NO solution for the Easy Scan just stopping on me. I was told technology is being upgraded all the time regardless of the version that was compatible with my old MacBook. There in nothing wrong with my old faithful Mac so why should I ‘upgrade’?

I also told the techie that I found your download and was told ‘oh good, you found a solution’! But I have your product and how is it that your VueScan is so easy and connected to the HP printer immediately! Sorry to rant but at least I managed to refrain from some Anglo Saxon expletives…

That’s all - just thank you so much for this. I am a volunteer Advocate and I rely on a scanner for evidential documents which need to be submitted so it’s a lifeline.

Okay, enough blah blah!

Kind regards
Helen
Helen S, London, UK.

From our Facebook page

Kim Christiansen

I’ve been using VueScan for well over 15 years now and as an imaging professional I can tell you it is second to none. The developers not only are skilled coders but they get the what imaging pros need. Not an old scanning guru? No problem, I often run VueScan in its more automated mode when I’m trying to capture a bunch of old photos and don’t want to spend as much time per image just to capture them.

There are some pieces of software out there that are so well done that they become part of the fabric of the part of the industry in which they reside. VueScan is exactly that.

Prepress & Imaging professional since 1988.

Vincent B. Cordisco

I can’t believe how good their scanner software is! It’s OUTSTANDING! It works FLAWLESSLY. It’s updated constantly. Their customer support is INCREDIBLE! I didn’t want to junk my Canon 9950F Scanner because it scans film, negatives, slides, print material, photos. Thanks to VueScan software my Canon 9950 F is still working like the day I bought it. In fact, it can now do more than Canon’s original driver because of improvements built into VueScan’s software via their updates. If you have an old scanner with no new driver software, get VueScan!

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