Virus Scanners For Mac Os X

VueScan
Stable release
Developer(s)	Hamrick Software (Ed Hamrick; David Hamrick)
Initial release	1998; 22 years ago
Operating system	Windows XP or later,^[2] Mac OS X Panther or later, Ubuntu Linux 8.10 or later Red Hat Linux 9 or later^[3]
Platform	IA-32 and x86-64
Size	Windows: 6 MB Mac OS: 9 MB Linux: 6 MB^[3]
Type	Image scanner and optical character recognition
License	Shareware
Website	www.hamrick.com

VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives.^[4] It supports optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents.^[5]^[6]. The software can be downloaded and used free of charge, but adds a watermark on scans until a license is purchased.

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Purpose[edit]

The term 'on-demand scan' refers to the possibility of performing a manual scan (by the user) on the entire computer/device, while 'on-access scan' refers to the ability of a product to automatically scan every file at its creation or subsequent modification. Ensuring your Mac OS X is virus free is especially important for people who handle sensitive data or information. Scanning your Mac OS X operating system once in a while in the future can detect or prevent future attacks. Start by ensuring that the Mac has Apple's latest security updates. If that does not fix the issues, it is time to get a. Checking your Mac for viruses. OS X does a pretty good job of stopping viruses and malware from attacking your computer. But there are steps you can take to further protect yourself.

VueScan is intended to work with a large number of image scanners (over 6000 in January 2020), excluding specialised professional scanners such as drum scanners, on many computer operating systems (OS), even if drivers for the scanner are not available for the OS. These scanners are supplied with device drivers and software to operate them, included in their price. A 2014 review considered that the reasons to purchase VueScan are to allow older scanners not supported by drivers for newer operating systems to be used in more up-to-date systems, and for better scanning and processing of photographs (prints; also slides and negatives when supported by scanners) than is afforded by manufacturers' software.^[7] The review did not report any advantages to Vuescan's processing of documents compared to other software. When compared to SilverFast, a similar program, the reviewer considered the two programs to be comparable, with support for some specific scanners better in one or the other. Vuescan supports more scanners, with a single purchase giving access to the full range of both film and flatbed scanners, and costs less.

The Vuescan program can be used with its own drivers, or with drivers supplied by the scanner manufacturer, if supported by the operating system. Vuescan drivers can also be used without the Vuescan program by applications software that supports scanning directly, such as Adobe Photoshop, again enabling the use of scanners without current manufacturers' drivers.^[8]

Overview[edit]

VueScan enables the user to modify and fine-tune the scanning parameters. The program uses its own independent method to interface with scanner hardware, and can support many older scanners under computer operating systems for which drivers are not available, allowing old scanners to be used with newer platforms that do not otherwise support them.^[9]

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VueScan works with more than 2,400 different supported scanners and digital cameras on Windows, 2,100 on Mac OS X and 1,900 on Linux.^[10]

VueScan is supplied as one downloadable file for each operating system, which supports the full range of scanners. Without the purchase of a license the program runs in fully functional demonstration mode, identical to Professional mode, except that watermarks are superimposed on saved and printed images. Purchase of a license removes the watermark, with a standard license also providing updates for one year, and a professional license with some additional features.

As distributed VueScan supports optical character recognition of English documents; 32 additional language packages are available on its Web site.^[11]

In September 2011, VueScan co-developer Ed Hamrick said that he was selling US$3 million per year of VueScan licenses.^[12]

References[edit]

^'VueScan Downloads'. Hamrick Software. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^'VueScan Release Notes - Windows Notes'. Hamrick Software.
^ ^a^b'Softpedia Global Page for VueScan Downloads'. Softpedia. SoftNews NET SRL. 26 May 2011. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^Wayne Fulton (2010). 'VueScan - Film Scanner software'. Scantips.com. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
^'VueScan'. Download.com. CBS Interactive. 25 May 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^Fulton, Wayne. 'VueScan'. A few scanning tips. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^Stone, M. David (23 October 2014). 'VueScan 9 review (rating 4/5)'. PC Mag. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
^'VueScan now scans directly to Photoshop'. Itproportal.com. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
^Stone, M. David (16 August 2005). 'VueScan 8.0 Professional'. PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^'Supported Scanners'. Release Notes. Hamrick Software. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^'Adding OCR Languages'. VueScan. Hamrick Software. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^'VueScan is NOT struggling'. Retrieved 15 April 2014.

External links[edit]

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VueScan&oldid=936564342'

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