Installing the software is straight-forward, you can go to Hamrick Software's website, and it will automatically detect what system you are running and what version you need. The software also lets you save your 35mm (or other size) scans as raw files for later processing, with the Professional version. If you have a scanner with a slide/film feeder, such as the Nikon Coolscan 4000 and Nikon Coolscan SA-21, then VueScan makes it easy to scan a photo and then move on to the next one quickly. There's a list of supported scanners on Hamrick Software's website, and we tried the scanner with a range of Nikon Coolscan scanners, as well as a generic USB film scanner (from Aldi), and we also used the software with a flatbed scanner, the Epson Perfection 3200 Photo flatbed scanner. If you're scanning documents, then Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is included, converting the image to text, with output options including PDF, text, and RTF, with support for multi-page documents. The software is designed to work with all film scanners, as well as flatbed scanners, automatic document feeders (ADF), and more, with output options of JPEG, PDF, TIFF, and even raw. Windows XP's minimum requirements are really rather low, so you could even run this software on an old PC if you wanted.

The recommended system requirements for VueScan software (version 9.7.11) is not listed on Hamrick Software's website, but as the software is designed to work with any version of Windows from XP onwards, the software should work with any computer that can run this version of Windows. In fact, when you buy VueScan, you can use the software on up to four different computers for personal use! You can also find other versions of VueScan so that you can use the software on older versions of Windows as well, so, for example, the 32-bit version will work with Windows XP 32-bit machines and up. The latest version of VueScan is 9.7.11, and as we've been using this software over the last month, it's been updated two or three times. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably.

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