VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that:
works with 750 flatbed and film scanners
runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
runs faster with multiple processors
has been downloaded more than 5 million times !!


Feature Comparison

VueScan and SilverFast are the two leading multi-vendor scanner programs. Some differences are:

Supported scanners - VueScan supports 750 scanners and SilverFast supports 289 scanners.

Universal Binary - VueScan runs faster on Intel Macs because it is a universal binary. Silverfast is an older PowerPC program that runs slower on Intel Macs (it has a universal binary launcher, but the SilverFast plugin is PowerPC only).

Multi-processor - VueScan runs faster on multi-processor systems (including multi-core systems) on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Silverfast doesn\'t have multi-processor support and is slower.

Number of scanners - a single copy of VueScan can work with all supported scanners, but you need to purchase and install a separate copy of SilverFast for each scanner you use.

Upgrades - VueScan Standard Edition includes one year of free upgrades and VueScan Professional Edition includes unlimited free upgrades. SilverFast upgrades can cost up to $304.

Film scanning - VueScan is widely acknowledged to produce superior scans of color negative film.

Infrared cleaning - VueScan supports on all scanners with an infrared lamp, SilverFast doesn\'t support on any Canon scanners and on some Epson scanners.

2 GByte scans - VueScan can do high-resolution scans that produce more than 2 GBytes of scan data, SilverFast can\'t. This is useful when scanning 4x5 or 8x10 film.

Ease of use - VueScan has a simpler, more consistent user interface than SilverFast, and is easier to learn, easier to use, and more productive for batch scanning.

Release Date:May 26, 2008

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