VueScan supports over 750 flatbed and blur scanners and 142 agenda camera raw book types, and is accessible for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

It automatically adjusts images to optimum blush balance, which reduces the charge to manually do this in Photoshop.

VueScan includes congenital blush arrangement of scanners, bearing colors that attending accurate to life.

Supporting added than 100 brands of abrogating film, VueScan offers options for scanning achromatic slides and prints, accumulation scanning, IT8 blush arrangement and added avant-garde scanning features.

VueScan and SilverFast are the two arch multi-vendor scanner programs.

Some differences are:

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

Universal Bifold - VueScan runs faster on Intel Macs because it is a accepted binary. Silverfast is an earlier PowerPC affairs that runs slower on Intel Macs (it has a accepted bifold 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 accept multi-processor abutment and is slower.

Number of scanners - a distinct archetype of VueScan can assignment with all accurate scanners, but you charge to acquirement and install a abstracted archetype of SilverFast for anniversary scanner you use.

Film scanning - VueScan is broadly accustomed to aftermath above scans of blush abrogating film.

Infrared charwoman - VueScan supports on all scanners with an bittersweet lamp, SilverFast doesn't abutment on any Canon scanners and on some Epson scanners.

2 GByte scans - VueScan can do high-resolution scans that aftermath added than 2 GBytes of browse data, SilverFast can't. This is advantageous back scanning 4x5 or 8x10 film.

Ease of use - VueScan has a simpler, added constant user interface than SilverFast, and is easier to learn, easier to use, and added advantageous for accumulation scanning.