The software can be downloaded and used free of charge, but adds a watermark on scans until a license is purchased. It supports optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents. VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives.

Pro users can change to either the ‘Standard’ or ‘Professional’ options to unlock powerful features to have complete control over their scans.Image scanner and optical character recognition Beginners only need to run VueScan and press the ‘Scan’ button.

We built VueScan so that two completely different types of users can use it. It can also recognize text usingOCR and create multi-page pdfs using both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders VueScan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. This is a completely free program that works with the built-in camera and most networked HP, Canon, Epson, Brother and Samsung scanners. If you have an iPad, iPhone or Android phone or tablet, you can use VueScan Mobile Free for scanning. It supports older scanners that don’t work on newer operating systems, including most Canon LiDE, Epson Perfection, Nikon CoolScan and HP OfficeJet scanners.

VueScan works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The best way to see if your scanner works is to download VueScan (it only takes 60 seconds) You can also check this list of supported scanners. VueScan is compatible with over 2500 different scanners.

Vuescan freeware