VueScan Release Notes
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VueScan Quick Start
Scanning Images
- Run VueScan
- Insert image into scanner
- Set
Input | Media type
- Press
Preview button
- Adjust crop box with mouse
- Press
Scan button
If the colors don’t look quite right in the preview, try clicking with the right mouse button (with control key on Mac OS) on an area of the image that should be gray.
To reset to the automatic color balance setting, double-click on the image with the right mouse button (with control key on Mac OS).
If the lighting in the scene is unusual (i.e. at sunset or with stage lighting), try setting Color | Color balance to Neutral.
Using Scanner as Copier
- Run VueScan
- Set
Input | Scan task to Copy to printer
- Set
Input | Media type
- Set
Input | Media size
- Insert image into scanner
- Press
Scan button
- Repeat from step 5
Working with Scanned Images
VueScan is designed to save scanned images to JPEG files (by default) or TIFF files (optionally).
You can configure your favorite image editing program to automatically open each image when a scan completes. Use the Prefs | External viewer option to control this.
On Mac OS X, you can set up the default viewer for .tif and .jpg files by:
- Click once on a .tif or .jpg file
- Choose
File | Show info
- Choose “Open with application”
- Pick the application you want to use
- Press the “Change All” button
On Windows, you can set up the program that automatically starts with scanned images by setting up a file association for .tif and .jpg files. To create a file association, click on a .tif or .jpg file with the right mouse button, select “Open with”, then “Choose program”. Pick the program you want to use, and also select “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file”.
On Linux, use the Prefs | Viewer option to select the application to use to view .tif and .jpg files.
Scanning Roll of Film
If you’re scanning many frames from the same roll of film, the following procedure will optimally set the CCD exposure and film base color (i.e. mask color):
- Set
Input | Options to Professional
- Set
Input | Media type
- Insert film with most transparent area
- If
Input | Lock exposure visible
- Clear
Input | Lock exposure
- Press
Preview button
- Adjust cropping if necessary
- If
Input | Lock exposure visible
- Set
Input | Lock exposure
- Press
Preview button
- If
Input | Lock film base color visible
- Set
Input | Lock film base color
Batch Scanning
To scan multiple images in a batch, set Input | Batch scan to All to scan all frames in a device, or set it to List and type in the list of frames (i.e. “4 3 1” for frames 4, 3 and 1, in that order).
More Information
For more information, refer to the VueScan Manual.
VueScan Changelog
Mac OS X Release Notes
If VueScan doesn’t see your scanner on Mac OS X, first make sure that “About This Mac” (in the Apple menu) in the USB devices section can see the scanner. If it doesn’t, try powering off the computer, powering off the scanner, powering on the scanner and then powering on the computer.
If VueScan is crashing, try a newer USB cable and/or a different USB port.
If you’re using a Ratoc Firewire-SCSI adapter, you may need to configure one of the options. Try setting the time between the power on and the SCSI bus reset to 40.
If you’re using the Ratoc USB->SCSI adapter, set up the adapter with the Ratoc utility to “Mass Storage” mode.
If VueScan still doesn’t see your scanner, go into “System Preferences”, “Accounts”, then “Startup Items”. Make sure nothing is being started that might be accessing the scanner (i.e. “Epson Scanner Monitor”).
If VueScan hangs with Firewire scanners, make sure OpenFirmware has “security-mode” set to “none”. Other settings cause problems.
Canon N650U, N1220U, and LIDE scanners are powered directly by the USB port. The USB port must provide a power supply of 500 mA. If you plug the scanner into the USB port on a keyboard or other USB device, the scanner may not work properly. Attach the scanner directly to a USB port on the computer or to a 500 mA self-powered USB hub. If you find that an N-series or LIDE scanner doesn’t work with one of your USB ports, try plugging it into the other USB port.
If you’re using a Microtech FireSCSI adapter, make sure that you’re using SCSI ID 0 and that the SCSI termination is correct.
If you’re using an Orange Micro 906F SCSI card, make sure it’s upgraded to at least firmware version F1.35.
Windows Release Notes
VueScan works on Windows Vista/7/8/10 (but not Windows XP/2000).
If you’ve set up a shortcut to vuescan.exe and are having problems, try double-clicking \Program Files\VueScan\vuescan.exe directly. This will test whether the problem is with the way the shortcut was set up or whether the problem is with VueScan.
To install CyberViewX_SF on Windows 10, you need to install an unsigned driver. Go to “control panel - device manager - imaging devices” and update the driver for the slide viewer from the folder c:\windows\Twain_32\cyberviewX_SF
If your scanner has a button on the front and if a program starts up when you press this button while running VueScan, you have a program running in the background that you need to stop. To stop this program, press control-alt-delete, choose the task manager and use it to stop this program. One example of this is the Epson Status Monitor.
If you have the Adaptec DirectCD Wizard on the Toolbar, you may have to remove it to get VueScan to run.
If you have an ELSA Synergy III graphics card (or possibly other NVideo graphics cards) and VueScan hangs when starting, you may need to disable the Desktop Manager that comes with the card (the file that causes the problem is nvdesk32.dll).
Linux Release Notes
On Linux, run vuescan from any directory. Your serial number will be stored in “.vuescanrc” in your home directory.
Install VueScan from the .deb or .rpm download. These set up /lib/udev/rules.d/60-vuescan.rules You may also need to reboot, or wait a few minutes for these udev rules to take effect.
If you’re installing from the .tgz download, there are instructions in README.txt.
To get USB scanners working on the newest Linux, try using “sudo apt purge ippusbxd” or “sudo apt purge ipp-usb” You might also need to install libcanberra-gtk-module and libcanberra-gtk3-module
If you’re using a Firewire scanner, make sure you’ve loaded the sbp2 module.
If you get errors from gtk when starting VueScan, make sure the LANG environment variable is set to C.
If you’re using an Epson scanner that uses a plugin library, make sure you’ve installed the Epson iscan plugin package (if two are listed, you need the older one) There’s more information about this on VueScan Supported Scanners page for your scsnner.
If you’re using a SCSI scanner, you need to make sure all of the /dev/sg* devices are read/write accessible. To see what scanners are available, type “cat /proc/scsi/scsi”.
Note that the Adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card doesn’t work with a Nikon film scanner, and will cause a hard bus hang if you use VueScan with it. This is due to a bug in the aha152x driver. Another bug in this driver causes junk to be appended to the end of a raw scan when using the PhotoSmart. Other SCSI cards seem to work fine with VueScan on Linux.
There have also been problems reported with the Adaptec AVA-2904E and the Canon FS2710, although this combination works fine on Windows.
If you want to add or remove scsi devices without rebooting your system, use the following commands:
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 ? 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 ? 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
(use the SCSI ID in place of “?” above)
If you’re having problems with USB timeouts (i.e. with the Nikon CoolScan IV (LS-40), make sure you use the “usb-uhci” (CONFIG_USB_UHCI) module instead of the alternate “uhci” (CONFIG_UHCI_ALT) module. You might also increase the kernel usb timeout value (CONFIG_USB_LONG_TIMEOUT=y).
Uninstalling VueScan
To uninstall VueScan, use the Help | Uninstall command.
This removes the vuescan.ini and vuescan.log files, and deletes the folder they’re in (if empty). This doesn’t delete any .ini files you’ve created.
If an administrator account is used to uninstall VueScan, the global registration info will be removed, otherwise the registration info for the user uninstalling VueScan will be removed.
On Windows and Mac OS X, the VueScan Photoshop plugin will be removed, the TWAIN data source will be removed and the registry will be cleaned up.
On Windows, any device drivers that VueScan installed will be removed.
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