

Most importantly, you can 'Try before you buy' as a full version of VueScan can be downloaded and tested for free. VueScan offers a range of advanced features for document, photo and film scanning. VueScan supports over 6000 scanners from 42 manufacturers in a combination of 3 operating systems - Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan - the world’s most widely used scanning software – is constantly adding scanners and ensuring that old scanners remain supported, even when the manufacturer stops supporting these scanners. VueScan for the Raspberry Pi is built on Ubuntu 18.04, and also runs well on other operating systems on the Raspberry Pi such as Raspbian and centos. We’ve had versions of VueScan for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux for Intel processors for many years, and are pleased to also release versions of the Raspberry Pi that works with almost all USB scanners that VueScan supports.” I’m impressed how the price has remained low since their launch, and we love the educational aims of the organisation and the vast numbers of applications it has been used for.


I purchased a Raspberry Pi kit and assembled it and really enjoyed doing this. Raspberry Pi users can get VueScan going to and clicking the red button – and will be scanning a few minutes later.Įd Hamrick, President of Hamrick Software, says, “We’re really excited to offer this. VueScan 9.7.26 now supports the Raspberry Pi models 2, 3 and 4 with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
