"An essential purchase if your scanner is no longer supported by the manufacturer and you can’t get it to work on your new computer." - Macworld Jan 2018
"An essential purchase if your scanner is no longer supported by the manufacturer and you can’t get it to work on your new computer." - Macworld Jan 2018
"If you want to coax the best possible quality out of whatever scanner you have,
VueScan is well worth the investment." - PC Magazine
VueScan is the ultimate tool for all your film and slide scanning needs.
Apple keeps changing their Mac OS and Minolta will not update the driver for my scanner. VueScan keeps my Minolta scanner operating with each new Mac OS version that comes around. Boo for Minolta - Kudos for VueScan!
— Greg Beale in Columbus, Ohio, USA
This application always works. Plenty of features for any scanner out there. Can't find software and drivers for your scanner/OS version? No problem because VueScan will do the trick.
— Vanessa Schwarz in Augsburg, Germany
VueScan provides the simplest way to make your scanner work, none of the problems of Windows drivers "not found". That also means that old hardware gets a new lease of life, ecologically friendly at its best!
— Emily Moore in Houston, Texas, USA
My scanner, though perfectly good mechanically, had been orphaned heading into Windows 7. VueScan brought it back into use, and the new version for Windows 10 carried that on. The application is excellent.
— Alex Robson in Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada| Film Scanning: | Yes |
| Infrared lamp: | Yes |
| Windows: | Yes |
| Mac: | Yes |
| Linux: | Yes |
| USB: | Yes |
| SCSI: | No |
| Firewire: | No |
| Network: | No |
| USB Vendor ID: | 132b |
| USB Product ID: | 0012 |
| Optical DPI: | 5400 |
VueScan is compatible with the Minolta Scan Elite 5400 II on Windows x86, Windows x64, Windows RT, Windows 10 ARM, 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 both visible light and infrared light in a single 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 Minolta 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.
If you have problems with this scanner hanging, try replacing the USB cable with a newer USB cable, preferably a shorter one. This scanner came with a low-quality USB cable, and is also sensitive to USB timing on faster computers.
Now it's your turn to bring your scanner back to life - and keep it out of the landfill
Download VueScan for Windows