Software for older scanners
21 June 2011
It’s an aggravating fact of life that peripherals become orphaned as operating systems move on. Anyone with an expensive SCSI slide scanner, for example, might feel hard done by if no software support exists for their device. Users of some flatbed scanners have the same problem – manufacturers often fail to provide software for older products to work with current versions of OS X
Vuescan is a third-party scanning application that supports more than 1750 scanners. It has versions for Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Linux and Mac OS X (10.3.9 to Lion). It costs $39.95 for the Standard edition and $79.95 for Professional, the difference being that Professional qualifies for unlimited free upgrades. Both versions have no expiration or time limit and will work for as long as you like – but the Standard version will get out of step with new OS versions over time
There is a downloadable demo version here